Essay test - self stability

Question 1

Locke - self as narrative

Answer 1

Supported by Conway and Williams, Conway and Bristol, Tulving

Question 2

Conway and Williams

Answer 2

Self defining memories - semantic and episodic thematic stories of the self

Question 3

Conway and Bristol

Answer 3

Self defining memories construction (elaborate)

Question 4

Tulving

Answer 4

Autonoetic consciousness - phenomenological view of the human as able to perform Augustines Ekstasis to plant their consciousness in the past

Question 5

Situationism

Answer 5

The self as socially contextualized - Bem

Question 6

Bem

Answer 6

Self perception - we come to understand ourselves in the same way we come to understand others, by observing overt viewpoints and attributing situational and dispositional causality, while looking for sufficient causes - can corroborate a self - schema viewpoint.

Question 7

Self Schemata

Answer 7

The self as a piagetian schema derived from our attempts to organize and explain behaviours and cognitions.
Supported by Markus, Higgins and Bargh, Symons and Johnson

Question 8

Markus

Answer 8

Self schema outline

Question 9

Higgins and Bargh

Answer 9

Self reference effect as a deeper level of processing than semantic (read in detail)
Self as a causal processing feedback loop

Question 10

Symons and Johnson - QUOTE

Answer 10

Meta analysis of the SRE
“adjectives rated under the self reference task were recalled best, indicating the self reference is a rich and powerful encoding process”

Question 11

Social Comparison

Answer 11

compare ourselves to others to obtain assessments of opinions, abilities and internal states

• downward as self esteem boosting
• upward as motivating improvement

Question 12

Klein “quote” and analysis

Answer 12

behaviours whose outcomes depended largely on objective ability still reflected attention to relative standing
- the self as highly socially contextualized as a result of social comparison