Insecure Self Esteem (oct.5)

Question 1

How do we come to an evaluation?

Answer 1

expectancy x value

Question 2

What may underlie self evaluation?

Answer 2

• evolutionary analysis, some inheritable survival trait

- other motives

Question 3

What are two possible motives for self evalutation?

Answer 3

• mastery

- social sources

Question 4

How does mastery motivate self esteem?

Answer 4

• we feel rewarded for completeing something

- perhaps those who completed more survived more and passed on their genetics

Question 5

What are two social sources of motivation?

Answer 5

(a) social rank (feel good when dominant, in high status)

b) need to belong (accepted, included, attatched

Question 6

How is the need to belong important to our self esteem?

Answer 6

(1) Need to belong theory = sociometer
(2) Conditional Acceptance
(3) Internalization

Question 7

What is the sociometer?

Answer 7

• our self esteem corresponds with feelings of being accepted by significant others
• self esteem acts as a system to moniter social inclusion and social performance
• self esteem keeps our behavior in line
• ex people asked to rate how they would feel doing certain actions and it matched with how they thought others would view them

Question 8

What is conditional acceptance?

Answer 8

the idea that people will accept you IF you do something of don’t do other things

Question 9

What is internalization?

Answer 9

contrual of a social interation turned inward (potentially implicit)

• can lead to imagining things that aren’t happening if certain schemas are triggered
• the self schema is linked to relational schemas
• unworthy self is linked to being critical of others

Question 10

Spreading Activation and Self Esteem

Answer 10

• lexical decison task, primed with failure, more quickly identify rejection for low self esteem
• high self esteem does not necessarily link success with acceptance, perhaps they have a more unconditional view creating high self esteem in the first place