PS270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ibm Officevision, Mental Chronometry, Pantyhose
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The lens through which we see the world. But the things of the world also have an influence on how we see ourselves. Study based on how lectures are organized. Organizational: self-schemas: the information we notice, think about, and remember is organized around our self-view, self-concept: the content of self-knowledge. Executive/controlling: guides actions, self-control, long-term planning. Emotional: the evaluation of self, determines our emotional responses, motivation to feel good biased perceptions. Self-schemas: structured set of knowledge and beliefs about oneself that guides the processing of self-relevant information think about the top 2 or 3 things that really matter to who you are. Tea you"re more likely to remember this word from your self-reference than you are to remember it by any other memory tool. Cocktail party effect: you can hear a specific conversation when you hear something that refers to yourself, zero in on that convo.
