LECTURE 3 - The Social Self

Question 1

What’s the self?

Answer 1

Our beliefs, preferences, actions, experiences, etc.

Question 2

Social self?

Answer 2

Interactions with others define our social self

Question 3

Looking glass self?

Answer 3

Seeing ourselves as WE think others see us

Question 4

Self knowledge?

Answer 4

Everything we know about ourselves and our characteristics- intelligent, beautiful, psychosis student, etc.

Question 5

Self perception theory

Answer 5

Defining ourselves through our actions (“we’re what we do”)
Behaviours lead to self-definition

Question 6

Over justification effect

Answer 6

Becoming less intrinsically motivated when offered a reward

Question 7

Social Comparison Theory

Answer 7

We compare ourselves to others to chek our progress, because there isn’t objective measure for some attributes and for valiadtion of similar others (how groups are formed)

Question 8

What’s self esteem?

Answer 8

How we perceive and value ourselves

Question 9

Types of self-esteem

Answer 9

Global - the overall opinion of oneself at any time(positive or negative)
Domain speicfic self-esteem - paticular area self esteem (sports, academic,etc)
Trait self- esteem - lifelong accumulated perception of social inclusion and exclusion
State self-esteem - A perception of chnages in levels of socia inclusion