PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Symbolic Interactionism, General Idea, Self-Perception Theory
2 Oct 2015
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Assimilation and differentiation (top-down; how do you see yourself in relation to others) 3. self-narrative (your view of yourself- a sense of who we are and the continuity with our past/how do we organize this?) To the extent that internal cues are weak or ambiguous, we infer our own internal states much as we infer those of others -> from observing our behaviour and the circumstances. Similar to social perception- our impression is entirely based on how they are interacting, but we also know that there is some selectivity/jumping to conclusion based on what we observe at that moment. The change in vocabulary in the questionnaire can influence the degree to which one considers oneself to be an environmentalist. I sometimes leave the water running vs. After answering these questions, they are asked to rank themselves on the scale of 1 to 15 how much they consider themselves an environmentalist. The linguistic manipulation changed how they self-reported:
