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1
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self psychology…what is it? How is it different?

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  • concerned with the subjective experience
  • focuses on people’s ideas about themselves (what they THINK they are like)
  • our ideas about what we are like
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personality psychology.. what is it? how is it different?

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  • concerned with objective experience

- focuses on what people are ACTUALLY like

3
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how is self psychology and personality psychology alike? (four reasons they interconnect)

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  • what we really are influences how we think about ourselves
  • what we really are influences how we feel about ourselves
  • self is one aspect of personality
  • self-report is often used to measure personality
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doctrine of mechanism and its influence on the study of the self

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  • says thoughts play no role in directing behavior
  • believed behavior can be fully understood without considering mental processes (the self)
  • behavior is the function of stimulus-response bonds
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doctrine of positivism and its influence on the study of the self

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  • says the self cannot be directly observed, it is not a physical entity
  • the self is mental, and its measurement is inherently subjective
6
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what led to the revival of self-psychology

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  • cognitive movement

- led to theorist to treat the self as a legitimate topic of study

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ME… what is it? how is it different?

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-the aspect of the self that is an object of our attention, thought, or perception

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I …. what is it? how is it different ?

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-the aspect of the self that is actively perceiving, thinking, or seeing

9
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ME functions

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  • influence the way people process and interpret information
  • guides behavior
  • serve as motivational function
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I functions

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  • to differentiate or distinguish us from other objects and people
  • to understand what we can control and what we can’t control
  • provides us with a sense of continuity and unity
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self-referent thoughts

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  • thoughts that refer to oneself
  • refers to people’s ideas about who they are and what they are like

ex: self-views, self-images, identities, and self-conceptions

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reflexive thoughts

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  • people take themselves as an object of their own attention
  • look back on themselves, much as when they see their reflection in a mirror