30. The Self Flashcards
(36 cards)
The person, including mental processes, body and personality characteristics.
THE SELF
The person’s concept of himself, a schema about yourself that guides the way we think about and remember information relevant to ourselves.
SELF-CONCEPT
Refers to a person’s evaluation of himself, how much he likes and respects himself.
SELF-ESTEEM
Who proposed a fundamental distinction between self as subject and self as object.
William James (1890)
The self as ____ includes the persons experience of self as thinker, feeler and actor.
subject
The self as ____ is the persons of view of the self.
object
This is the ____ on which people reflect when they take the self as an object of thought.
self-concept
Contemporary psychodynamic thinking focuses on ____-____ – mental models or representations of the self.
self-representations
Psychodynamic theorists assert that people’s ____ of themselves and others play a key role in personality and psychopathology.
representations
Thus, the self-concept is an ____ towards the self, which includes beliefs, feelings and tendencies to behave towards oneself in particular ways.
attitude
Two characteristics distinguish psychodynamic views of the self.
(1) Firstly, they emphasise that people ____ the self with many different positive and negative emotions, which are activated under different circumstances.
associate
(2) Second, self representations can be ____ and ____, explicit and implicit. These representations can be at odds or completely contradictory.
conscious or unconscious
Cognitive theorists focus on the way the self-concept ____ thought and memory.
shapes
One cognitive theorist has proposed that the self-concept is like a theory of ____.
oneself
Other cognitive theorists proposed that the self-concept is a ____ ____ – a schema about the self that guides the way we think about and remember information relevant to ourselves.
self schema
Individuals have multiple ____ that guide the way they think about themselves, such as the motive to see themselves accurately.
motives
Another primary motive regarding the self, which often competes with accuracy motivation, is the motivation to maintain high self-esteem, sometimes referred to as the ____ ___ ____ ____.
motive for self-enhancement
People generally maintain ____ self-esteem by giving greater emotional weight to areas in which they are more successful.
positive
When people compare themselves to other people on that particular dimension, a process called social comparison, they often use as the comparison group individuals who are ____ ___ than they are.
worse off
People may engage in ____ ____, a process by which they set themselves up to fail when success is uncertain in order to preserve their self-esteem.
SELF-HANDICAPPING
One final means by which people may maintain or even enhance their self-esteem is ‘____ __ ____ ____’ or BIRGing.
basking in reflected glory
People who BIRG publicly announce their affiliation with another person or group that is successful, even though they had ____ to do with the success of that person or group.
nothing
A less obvious motive guiding the self is ____-____, the motive to interpret information to fit the way one already sees oneself and to prefer people who verify rather than challenge that view.
Self consistency
____ people actually prefer to interact with others – including marital partners – who have a negative view of them.
Depressed
