lecture 2

Question 1

what is self knowledge (aka self concept)?

Answer 1

what we think about ourselves

Question 2

what is the social self?

Answer 2

this is our ideal self, and we portray this version of ourselves majority of the time

NOTE: although this is our ideal self, it is the FALSE self, and is just how we act around other people

Question 3

what is our true self?

Answer 3

our 100% authentic self

Question 4

what is self serving bias? give an example.

Answer 4

we don’t know how far we would go or what we are capable of doing, because we like to think we are too good

ex: thinking you would not be a nazi soldier , but we don’t really know ourselves that well!!!!

Question 5

what is the most prevalent bias we have?

Answer 5

self serving bias

Question 6

is our self concept objective or subjective?

Answer 6

subjective

Question 7

STATE the 4 components of the self

Answer 7

self concept

self esteem

self knowledge

social self

Question 8

what is our self concept? how is it formed?

Answer 8

“who am i?”

it is formed like this: we see ourselves in the way we think others see us (so we see ourselves from what we think others POV is)

Question 9

describe the scar on the face study on self bias

Answer 9

people were given a prosthetic scar on their face before an interview, and were shown in a mirror, and then right before the interview the makeup artist ‘touched it up’ a bit, but in reality the artist removed their scar!

after the interview, participants were like omggg they kept judging my scar n looking at me waaaaaa, they hated me waaaa

but in reality they didn’t lol cuz there was no scar!

Question 10

Give an example of how something can become a part of our self concept.

Answer 10

depressed person

“nobody likes me, I’m ugly and terrible and gross”

even if this is untrue, we THINK others see us this way, and thus it becomes our self concept -> depression.

Question 11

what is an example of a schema?

Answer 11

from our past experience we think “i love cats, they won’t hurt me” (we think this whenever we see a cat)

so we get close n comfy with any cats we see but this schema is not always right, the cat can bite/scratch you!!

Question 12

can our memory be biased?

Answer 12

yes, it is impacted by emotion and trauma

Question 13

what does subliminal stimuli impact?

Answer 13

our emotions, before we even have conscious awareness

Question 14

what is the self esteem pie chart?

Answer 14

1/3 performance
1/3 appearance
1/3 social

this is what impacts self esteem

Question 15

describe how social comparisons work, relating to our social self

Answer 15

we compare up, down, and temporally

we compare upwards when we feel good

we compare downwards when we feel bad (ex: at least I’m not homeless)

we compare temporally with our past selves (looking at how much we have improved for example, we will insult our past self in order to compliment our recent self)

Question 16

what is learned helplessness? give an example.

Answer 16

a perceived lack of control that generalizes to other contexts

ex: “I failed the test, so I guess I’m a stupid person” (generalized to overall self)

Question 17

what is self determination?

Answer 17

when we compartmentalize the negative event

Question 19

describe the process of how learned helplessness occurs (3 steps)

Answer 19

uncontrollable bad event -> perceived lack of control -> learned helplessness

ex: dog gets shocked in experiment and cant shut it off, learns to stop fighting it eventually and just excepts it (saddddd)

Question 20

define self esteem

Answer 20

it is our overall self evaluation

Question 21

explain some pros and cons to having high self esteem

Answer 21

pros:
- make more friends
- less likely to be depressed
- take more chances in life

cons:
- more likely to get defensive and rude when they are critiqued (especially if its fragile, UNEARNED self esteem)
- more likely to cheat
- more likely to gamble
- entitled

Question 22

achieved self esteem is known to be better than fragile self esteem. describe an example that shows this

Answer 22

lately, hockey games cap the score at a certain point so that the losing team doesn’t feel soooo bad about themselves

but this is counteractive: now the losing team has this fake, unearned self esteem, and the winning team cannot experience their full deserved achieved self esteem. If they had not capped the points, the losing team would feel poopy but would have motivation to be better, now they don’t have any motivation! and they have shit fragile self esteem! they gonna b sad lil babies if anything negative or critical happens to them in life!!!

so achieved/earned self esteem is overall a lot better

Question 23

how does increased self efficacy make you feel?

Answer 23

it makes you feel like you can achieve/do things

Question 24

what is the main goal of self serving bias?

Answer 24

to protect us from depression

Question 25

what is the best way to improve your self esteem?

Answer 25

fail and improve to be better

Question 26

what is false modesty?

Answer 26

we present as modest even though we shouldn’t (ex: get called pretty and say “ahh noo I’m ugly… haha..”)

Question 27

what is impression management a part of? list and describe 5 impression management strategies we use.

Answer 27

it is a part of our self presentation, and we use it when interacting with others

strategies: (acronym: ISSIE, just think of: inside super sexy indian elephants)
1. ingratiation
- wanting to be liked, but risk being a brownnoser (nose up someone’s ass!!)
- typical actions: looking for compliments and favors
- ex: listen to same music as everyone

2. self promotion
   - want to be competent, but risk looking conceited
   - typical actions: performance claims (?? re-listen lec)
3. supplication
   - ex: “Ugh I’m so ugly”
   - want to look helpless so they can get nurtured (get more compliment)
   - typical action: self deprecation
4. intimidation
   - when you talk the talk but don’t walk the walk
   - want to seem dangerous but risk looking like a blowhard (ur less credible)
   - typical action: threats
5. exemplification
   - RE LISTEN TO LEC
   - typical action: self denial

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