PS270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Comparison Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, Motivation
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Generalizations about ourseves based on past experiences that serve to organize and guide processing of self related information. Hazel markus experiment: self surveys, participants were schematic for independence or dependence or were aschematic. Schematics: people who possess a self schema for a particular dimension (ex independence) Faster for independent dependent traits independent traits than for independent words than for dependent words. Judge others more readily in terms of the schematic dimension. Performance standards (even when there"s an objective standard) Reasons for feeling: schacter"s two factor model emotion = arousal + label (cognition) What we feel depends on how we label arousal, based on external cues. How do we learn about ourselves: introspection: The process whereby people look inwaard and examine their own thoughts, motives, and feelings. Though we don"t always know the reasons for our feelings or behaviours, we do readily explain them.
