Social Self

Question 1

Social psychology

Answer 1

• Identity and belonging
• Power and agency
• Concerned with influence of others

Question 2

Levels of analysis

Answer 2

Intrapersonal: Explaining what goes on within an individual
Interpersonal: Explaining what goes on between individuals
Intragroup: Explaining what goes on in a group
Intergroup: Explaining what goes on between groups

Question 3

What is the self?

Answer 3

• Unity of selfhood
  o Physical body
  o Psychological body e.g. name, roles, personal relations

Question 4

Self construals

Answer 4

• A persons view about themselves is shaped though an active construal process that plays out in interaction with the social environment
• Self is shaped though multiple dources: personal, relational, social
• Duality of the self

Question 5

The ‘I’

Answer 5

• Doing the thinking, feeling and knowing
• The active processor of information
• Self-awareness: the act of thinking about ourselves
  o How we see ourselves
  o The self can have both a private view and a public view

Question 6

The ‘Me’

Answer 6

• Descriptive aspect
• Our beliefs about ourselves
• Self-concept the content of the self, our knowledge of who we are

Question 7

The self (according to James)

Answer 7

The self (according to James)
- The self is both subject and object of perception
- Our self concept is shaped in important ways by other people
- How we imagine ourselves in their eyes
- What we think they see
- How they treat us
- ‘we have as many selves as there are people who have impressions of us’

Question 8

The ‘me’ and the ‘we’

Answer 8

• Brewer and Gardner
  o Individual self: personal traits that differentiate the self from others
  o Relational self: connections and role relationships with significant others
  o Collective self: group memberships that differentiate us from them

Question 9

ABCs of the self

Answer 9

A- AFFECT
- Feelings towards ourselves
- Self-esteem
B- BEHAVIOUR
- Our behaviour says something about who we are
C- COGNITIONS
- We have ideas about who we are and the kind of person we are
- The cognitive component of the self is typically what we mean by self-concept.

Question 10

Self concept

Answer 10

• What you know about yourself
• A system of affective-cognitive structures about the self that lends structure and coherence to the individuals experience
• Situational and temporal malleable but also stable
• Diverse and multifaceted

Question 11

Self schemas

Answer 11

Elements about oneself that guide processing of self-relevant information

Question 12

Self regulation theory

Answer 12

Actual self
Ideal self
Ought self

Question 13

How do we form a self concept

Answer 13

1. Look inside
   - self awareness theory
   - Self perception theory
2. Look outside
   - Looking glass self
   - Social comparison