The self Flashcards
What are Self-schemas measured by?
traditionally, self-reports. modernly, cognitive tests
Flow
full absorption in a task at optimal balance of skill and challenge
mindfulness
attending to present experience in an objective and non-judgemental way
mindlessness
operating on autopilot
mind wandering
thoughts drifting off task
Higgins’ Self-discrepency theory
There is the actual self and our self guides. People are motivated to reach a state where their actual self meets their self-guides
What are our self guides?
The ought self - what you should be
the ideal self - what you could be
What do discrepancies between the ideal and actual self produce?
Depression and rejection
what do discrepancies between the ought and actual self produce?
agitation and anxiety
Linville’s Self complexity theory
Divides the self to different domains. Based on the idea that people have multiple distinct selves. People differ in complexity between the their selves.
Self-esteem (self-complexity theory)
Self esteem is the function and evaluation of the all self concepts. the higher the complexity between the self-concepts, the more the individual is buffered from feedback.
Social identity theory
suggests that self-esteem is a function of the positivity of our group memberships
Festinger’s Social Comparison Theory
suggests that people learn about themselves through comparisons with others . people seek similar others o validate their own perceptions, attributions and feelings.
Self-esteem (social comparison theory)
Comparing ourselves to someone better than we are will decrease our self-esteem, and can give us valuable feedback.
comparing ourselves to someone worse than us can give us a self-esteem boost, as we feel better about ourselves
Self-evaluation maintenance theory (Tesser)
What we with negative feedback depends on relative performance, psychological closeness to the person of comparison, and importance of the domain we are comparing.
