Lecture 3; dynamic self Flashcards
(41 cards)
True or false;Self understanding largely product of Construal Process : Making sense of our experiences, preferences, attributes, etc
True
true or false ; Sometimes our lack of self insight can be self protective: Things many of us would rather not know about ourselves.
true
Why do we draw inaccurate conclusions of ourselves ?
Draw inaccurate conclusions of ourselves because we don’t have access to certain mental processes , such mental processes are nonconscious ( outside of awareness), leaving us to generate plausible accounts for our preferences and behaviours instead.
Gender manipulation & terms of ethnicity
ppl that mostly aren’t white are the ones who define themselves with ethnicity more then anything
Stereotype distinctiveness?
Happens when Strong performance normally linked to an opposite gender ( rly good in something girls arent supposed to be good in for example)
- Ex: Queens Gambit, self taught chess player, exceptional but shes a girl so people undersestimate…
- Personal example is poker, i would be encouraged to associate to poker because it makes me distinct since poker isn’t a girly thing
True or false; If your better in sports vs school, you will tend to point out you are an athlete not an academic
True
Contextual Activation
( Fazio, Effrein & Falendar)
example with introvert/extrovert
Extrovert after identifying as extrovert continued to act even more as an extrovert then before, vise versa , tendency to act as how you are depicted
Self vs working self
There’s a working self (accessible at any moment, something that’s core about you, top of the mind, at your finger tip type of stuff) the CORE
Other part is not so core, more peripheral, and is triggered by the situation we’re in.
Availability vs Accessibility
Available: there ( ex: the core)
Accessibility: Knowledge of yourself that is available but the level of how hard it is to get to
When do primes prime ( 3 groups)
- Not available in memory: Cant drag smt out of you if you just don’t got it
- Available but low accessibility : There but hard to get to ( prime helps here) - Primes Influences inconsistent
- Chronically highly available : Already there, don’t need priming
- **Self concept clarity vs self-complexity
.- Self concept clarity: is this idea that we have clear consistent idea of ourself, this makes up a coherent self.
- vs Self complexity, ( having a lot of cells and lot of cells that are different one to another) contrast to self-concept clarity : More distinct cells more differentiated self
Self buffer idea:
if something happens to one of your selves, won’t affect all of your selves.
Culture, memory and the self, (Wagar& Cohen, 2003)
Euro- Canadians: Personal identity
Asian- Canadians: Collective identity
Two distinct forms of interdependent self-construal
- Relational one: focused on viewing the self as connected to other individuals
- Collective one: focused on viewing the self in relation to social groups or collective
Social comparison theory:
Seek info about yourself though comparison with other people
To get an accurate sense of how good you are at something, you need to compare yourself with people who have roughly your level of skill.
Not informative to compare to celebs or pro athletes
Self esteem
People with low self-esteem: Less satisfied with life, more hopeless, more depressed, less able to cope with life challenges, prone to antisocial behaviour and delinquency. Feel ambivalent about themselves ( feel both good & bad).
People with high self-esteem: Always good to have high self-esteem because it has many dimensions but all overall good. Feel good about themselves.
Raising the self esteem in people might produce what ?
A healthier, more resilient children and a better society overall in the long run.
The trait of self esteem
Persons enduring level of self-regard over time, fairly stable ( people who report high trait of self-esteem at one point in time tend to report the same later on, same is true for low self-esteem)
The state of self esteem
Refers to the dynamic, changeable self-evaluations a person experiences as momentary feelings about the self. Like the working self, which change one context to another, so can your self esteem .
Self esteem rises and falls when and whats the impact of this?
Self esteem rises and falls with successes and failures in the domains that are the most important to their self-worth ( self esteem goes up when you do well in areas that matter to you, but it drops when you stumble in these areas). WHICH IS WHY….
WHICH IS WHY… better to stake self-worth in wide range of areas…
WHICH IS WHY it is better to stake self-worth in wide range of areas, like equally prioritize friends, school, sports, musical hobbies, etc ( don’t put all eggs in one basket) SO THAT, the more our self-worth comes from multiple, distinct domains, the more likely we are to avoid feeling devastated by a setback in any one domain. ** IMPORTANT**
Sociometer hypothesis ( Mark Leary, 1995)
Social acceptance
- Leary argues that self-esteem is an internal, subjective index of how well we are regarded by others and hence how likely we are to be accepted/rejected.
- Leary reasons, we couldn’t go through it alone
* the characteristics that make people accept or reject us*
- High self esteem would indicate that one is thriving in their relationships , the other way around Low self esteem would indicate interpersonal difficulties.
- In this sense, low self-esteem is not something to be avoided at all costs, instead it provides useful information about when we need to attend to and shore up our social bonds.
Culture and self-esteem
- Independent cultures foster higher levels of self-esteem than interdependent cultures do.
- Westerners report higher self-esteem and a more pronounced concern with evaluating the self.
- interdependent not that they feel bad about themselves its just that interdependent ppl are more concerned with other ways of feeling good about themselves, more committed to collective goals.
- Situationist hypothesis, people from independent cultures create social interactions that boost self esteem.
- Example, the Canadians avoided being reminded of failure vs Japanese used the occasion to improve.
True or false
Most of East Asian languages don’t even have a word or phrase for self-esteem.
