PSY 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Impression Management, Affective Forecasting
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Self esteem: how much or little you like yourself. Social self: our group membership (categorization) or social identity. They typically form the answer to the question who are you . Trait descriptors, or attributes that make up who you are. Aschematic: doesn"t describe you, not how you think about yourself. Trait is important to self-description (importance ratings) Information about self = rich knowledge about schema. Information about others = see schema in behavior. When you"re not schematic in something, you view behaviors as the individual actions in the big picture, but if you are schematic in it, you see the big picture of the behavior. Can"t suddenly switch from one extreme of being aschematic to being schematic. Can however be pushed or primed one way or another if you"re in the middle. Actual self (who we are right now); recite our schemas. Ideal self (who we want to be); what you"re striving to be, your goals.
