Chapter 17

Question 1

ontological self

Answer 1

I, person in your head or your soul

Question 2

epistemological self

Answer 2

me, statements you make about yourself

Question 3

declarative knowledge

Answer 3

the facts and impressions that we consciously know and can describe, self-knowledge we can “declare”

Question 4

declarative self

Answer 4

comprises all of your (conscious) knowledge or opinions about your own personality traits, includes self-esteem and self-schema

Question 5

self-esteem

Answer 5

overall opinion about whether you are good or bad, worthy or unworthy, or somewhere in between

Question 6

self-schema

Answer 6

contains everything you know, or think you know, about your traits and abilities, organized into a coherent system

Question 7

long-term memory

Answer 7

The final stage of information processing, in which a nearly unlimited amount of information can be permanently stored in an organized manner; this information may not
always be accessible, however, depending on how it was stored and how it is looked for.

Question 8

self-reference effect

Answer 8

the enhancement of longterm memory that comes from thinking about how information being memorized relates to the self.

Question 9

procedural self

Answer 9

patterns of behavior that are characteristic

of an individual