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3. The Social Self Flashcards

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Subjective self-awareness

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Distinguish between self and environment

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Objective self-awareness

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Simple representation of self ex. Existence

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Symbolic self-awareness

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Complex, abstract representation of self ex. Humans thinking of themselves

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Declarative self-knowledge

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Self-schemas, who are we

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What are the aspects of self?

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  1. Material self (bodily self, possessions)
  2. Spiritual self (private aspects, internal thoughts and feelings)
  3. Social self (how seen by others (collective, group), as an individual)
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What is an individual?

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What identifies you as a particular individual person; personality traits, abilities, preferences

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What are the parts of social self?

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Individual, relational, collective

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Relational self

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Self-with other; as you are in relationships

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Collective self

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As a member of a group; ethnic/religious, stigmatized, political affiliation, occupational

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What are possible self-construal processes?

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Observation (internal and external; contingency between them, hitting toe and feeling pain), assimilation and differentiation (ways similar/different from others, boy in girl family), self-narrative of autobiographical memory (identity, self-narrative, memory stories), self-perception (inferring personal attitudes from behaviour), social construction (others shape how we think of ourselves)

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Self-stereotyping

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Taking on positive and negative characteristics of a desired group identity

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Identity

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Sense of unity, oneness

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Self-esteem

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Overall positive or negative evaluation people have of themselves

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Trait self-esteem

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Who you are on chronic, ongoing basis

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State self-esteem

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Temporary feelings of yourself

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Implicit self-esteem, what test measures it?

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Automatic/non-conscious, measured with Implicit Associations Test

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What procedures do we use to measure our self-esteem?

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1) Comparisons with standards (success, failure, personal or social)
2) Importance of the domain (certain characteristic)
3) Attribution (is it me or surrounding)
4) Overgeneralization (exaggeration)
5) Social construction (response to judgments)

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Self-perception theory (Bem)

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We infer our internal states as much as we infer the states of others when we are not sure about what our attitudes are (internal cues are weak/ambiguous, if don’t know - can manipulate)

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Two-factor theory of emotions

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Physiological arousal * cognitive label = emotion (ex. misattribution of attraction to the researcher on high bridge)

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Self-construction

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Social feedback can shape virtually all our thoughts about self

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Intersubjectivity

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The feeling of interacting with others, social experience in developing sense of self

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Symbolic interactionism

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Humans interact with each other largely in terms of symbols, which have agreed-upon, shared meanings; how you get defined in this

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Self-presentation

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We attempt to control the impressions others have of us

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What are social constructions of self?

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Intersubjectivity, symbolic interactionism, self-presentation

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Evaluation

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Expectancy * value

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Mastery

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‘Wired to’ feel good when we are competent

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What are the social sources of self-esteem?

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A. Social rank (dominance and status)

B. Need to belong (acceptance and inclusion)

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Sociometer theory

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If I believe I am included, I have higher self-esteem and vv

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Conditional acceptance

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If good situation - accepted

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Internalization

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When evaluating ourselves, we still even implicitly think about social knowledge

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Spreading activation

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Prime one idea and it spreads to something else

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Self-awareness

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Degree to which a person is paying attention to his/her own thoughts, feelings, and behaviours

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What are the sources of self-awareness?

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  • social disruptions (xx)
  • salience of self (feeling different)
  • personality variable (do you focus on you)
  • self-focusing stimuli (sudden reflection in the mirror)
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What are the effects of self-awareness?

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1) self-evaluation (comparing self to standards, feel bad if far off)
2) Behavioural self-regulation
a) social standards
b) personal standards
c) activated standards
d) standards from relational schemas
3) Escaping self-awareness

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How to avoid self-evaluative discrepancies?

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Regulate your behaviour to be up to your standards

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Distinction between I and me

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I - subjective, agent, feelings to think/act

Me - objective, thought, ideas about me

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Procedural self-knowledge

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Heuristics and mental habits of thinking about oneself

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In which type of self-schemas does the working concept occur?

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Temporary

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What are the effects of self-awareness?

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  1. Self-evaluation
  2. Behavioral self-regulation (social (mirror and test), personal (mirror and candy), activated (ex. internal/external attribution, luck/ability), relational (parents vs friends) standards)
  3. Escaping self-awareness
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Which failure attribution feels worse?

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Internal

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Self-awareness

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Degree to which a person is paying attention to his/her thoughts and behaviours

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What are some sources of self-awareness?

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  • social disruptions (noticing yourself in social)
  • salience of self (ex. beird change)
  • personality variable (introspection)
  • self-focusing stimuli (mirror)
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What are the effects of self-awareness?

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  1. Self-evaluation
  2. Behavioural self-regulation (social (mirror and test), personal (mirror and candy), activated (ex. internal/external attribution, luck/ability), relational (parents vs friends) standards)
  3. Escaping self-awareness

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