Week 10: Chapter 16

Question 1

ontological self

Answer 1

The somewhat mysterious inner self of thinking, observation, and experience; also called the I, as opposed to the me or epistemological self.

Question 2

epistemological self

Answer 2

Knowledge of one’s own personality traits, experiences, and other attributes; also called the me, as opposed to the I or ontological self.

Question 3

declarative knowledge

Answer 3

Information held in memory that is verbalizable; sometimes called knowing that.

Question 4

declarative self

Answer 4

An individual’s (conscious) opinions about his or her own personality traits and other relevant attributes.

Question 5

self-esteem

Answer 5

The degree to which a person thinks he or she is good or bad, worthy or unworthy.

Question 6

self-schema

Answer 6

The cognitive structure hypothesized to contain a person’s self-knowledge and to direct self-relevant thought.

Question 7

long-term memory (LTM)

Answer 7

long-term memory (LTM) The final stage of information processing, in which a nearly unlimited amount of information can be permanently stored in an organized manner; this information may not always be accessible, however, depending on how it was stored and how it is looked for.

Question 8

self-reference effect

Answer 8

The enhancement of long-term memory that comes from think- ing about how information being memorized relates to the self.

Question 9

procedural self

Answer 9

Patterns of behavior that are characteristic of an individual.