PSYCH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Psych, Parachuting
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Self-perception theory: when our attitudes are uncertain or ambiguous, we infer inner feelings by observing our behaviour and the situation in which it occurs. Happens only when we"re not sure how we feel. We evaluate whether our behaviour re ects how we truly feel or if something about the situation we"re in makes us behave a certain way. Not having a clear sense of what you like and don"t like until you engage in an action and later remember it and decide that maybe i must feel x way because of the behaviour i engaged in. People have different selves that develop in response to different social situations. Self monitoring: self-observation and self-control guided by situational cues to social appropriateness. High self-monitoring means regulating expressive behaviour and self- presentation to appear a certain way. The looking-glass self: we see ourselves through the eyes of other people and incorporate their views into our self-concept.
