Lecture 1 - introduction Flashcards
What was the ancients more concerned about, instead of the self?
Society and its structures
How did the industrial revolution lead to developments in Self psychology?
More people in one place - how are people different to us?
Who did the 20 statements test?
Kuhn & McPartland (1954)
Outline Kuhn & McPartland (1954)
- looks at what people treat as relevant to themselves
- Compared consensuall and subconsensual descriptions of the self
Describe Consensual and subconcensual descriptions
- Consensual = publicly available information, people can observe it easily and would agree
- Subconsensual = private, subjective, may not be obvious
Define Self-concept
“The set of beliefs we had about ourselves and how we define ourselves as individuals in the world”
What does self-concept include, and define them
- Awareness (what we perceive about ourselves)
- Reflection (how we think conciously about ourselves)
- Experience (how we exp the world and how it effects us)
- Agency (the way we consider ourselves as acting agents, or not)
- Body (the self as an entity in a body, experiencing things)
X - not PERSONALITY = sum of things that makes a person psychologically distinct
Who coined the Fundamental attribution error?
Ross (1977)
Define F.A.E
- underattributing contextual/ social factors
- overattributing individuals + self
Outline Real vs ideal self
Who you are vs who you want to be
Outline Immediate moment vs coherence over time
being in a particular context vs interwoven narrative
Outline implicit vs explicit self concept
affecs without awareness vs occurs conciously and upon reflection
Outline personal vs relational vs social identity
Personal: sense of uniquness, for ourselves
Relational: how we’re connected to others
Social: how we belong (or not) to large scale groups
Outline Private self vs public self
Different contexts result in different identities/ selves
What did Borges (1970) do?
Wrote about having 2 personas, a public and a private one
