Brown Chapter 1

Question 1

self psychology…what is it? How is it different?

Answer 1

• concerned with the subjective experience
• focuses on people’s ideas about themselves (what they THINK they are like)
• our ideas about what we are like

Question 2

personality psychology.. what is it? how is it different?

Answer 2

• concerned with objective experience

- focuses on what people are ACTUALLY like

Question 3

how is self psychology and personality psychology alike? (four reasons they interconnect)

Answer 3

• what we really are influences how we think about ourselves
• what we really are influences how we feel about ourselves
• self is one aspect of personality
• self-report is often used to measure personality

Question 4

doctrine of mechanism and its influence on the study of the self

Answer 4

• says thoughts play no role in directing behavior
• believed behavior can be fully understood without considering mental processes (the self)
• behavior is the function of stimulus-response bonds

Question 5

doctrine of positivism and its influence on the study of the self

Answer 5

• says the self cannot be directly observed, it is not a physical entity
• the self is mental, and its measurement is inherently subjective

Question 6

what led to the revival of self-psychology

Answer 6

• cognitive movement

- led to theorist to treat the self as a legitimate topic of study

Question 7

ME… what is it? how is it different?

Answer 7

-the aspect of the self that is an object of our attention, thought, or perception

Question 8

I …. what is it? how is it different ?

Answer 8

-the aspect of the self that is actively perceiving, thinking, or seeing

Question 9

ME functions

Answer 9

• influence the way people process and interpret information
• guides behavior
• serve as motivational function

Question 10

I functions

Answer 10

• to differentiate or distinguish us from other objects and people
• to understand what we can control and what we can’t control
• provides us with a sense of continuity and unity

Question 11

self-referent thoughts

Answer 11

• thoughts that refer to oneself
• refers to people’s ideas about who they are and what they are like

ex: self-views, self-images, identities, and self-conceptions

Question 12

reflexive thoughts

Answer 12

• people take themselves as an object of their own attention
• look back on themselves, much as when they see their reflection in a mirror