Week 4

Question 1

How does the person see the social world?

Answer 1

Through a construction of reality

Question 2

What is the self?

Answer 2

An Oxford English Dictionary Definition: A person’s essential being that distinguishes them from others, especially considered as the object of introspection or reflexive action”

Question 3

What was William James’ perspective on the self?

Answer 3

The I and the Me. The I being the knower and and the Me being the object of reflection , or the known. “I know it was me that ate the cookie”.

Question 4

What are the two content dimensions that social psychologists are interested in?

Answer 4

Communion and agency.

Communion - warmth, social relationships

Agency - competence, goal attainment, being ambitious and capable.

Question 5

What are the self aspects that we may reflect upon?

Answer 5

Personal aspects and social aspects

Question 6

What are some person and social aspects?

Answer 6

Personal aspects - features that distinguish you from others, traits (warm extraverted)
Social aspects - roles (boss, partner, friend, commuter etc)

Include domains that these exist in

Question 7

What is a schema?

Answer 7

A structure in your memory/knowledge that organises things that you know.

They are organised by how core they are to you and ways of thinking

Question 8

What is a narrative?

Answer 8

How we talk to ourselves, how we see ourselves and how our past views, experiences and what we are looking towards determines our narrative

Question 9

What is an actual and possible self?

Answer 9

How we are and how we would like to be. How we see ourselves in cases of improving

Question 10

In terms of change, how does the actual and possible self illicit change

Answer 10

We can see perceived discrepancies between our actual selves and our ideal/ought self and try and line them up

Question 11

what is the ought self?

Answer 11

Who should I be?

Question 12

What is the ideal self

Answer 12

What would I like to be?

Question 13

What are Western cultures referred to?

Answer 13

Individualist cultures

Question 14

What are Eastern cultures referred to?

Answer 14

Collectivist cultures

Question 15

What is the difference between sense of self and these two cultures?

Answer 15

The perspective with idea of self, with individualist culture being more person capabilities and collectivist culture being more how we are seen in our society

Question 16

What is the concept of the working self?

Answer 16

What is accessible and in our environment drives who we are and how we act.

Question 17

Is the self multi-faceted?

Answer 17

yes

Question 18

What is social comparison theory?

Answer 18

self knowledge comes from comparing one’s own traits abilities, attitudes, emotions to those of others.

Question 19

What is social feedback?

Answer 19

We hold a believe about how others see us, so therefore we reaffirm that and behave like that.

Question 20

Being complimented and told that we are tidy causes a change in behaviour and makes us more tidy, y/n

Answer 20

Yep

Question 21

How can we create a personal construction of the self

Answer 21

Through introspection

Question 22

What is an expected reward?

Answer 22

an extrinsic reward

Question 23

What is intrinsic motivation?

Answer 23

Doing something because we want to and enjoy it