PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Down Syndrome, Simone Biles, Japanese Canadians
6 Nov 2017
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What kind of self is more salient in the u. s. Differences may be due to socialization and evolutionary accounts. We learn about ourselves by making comparisons to other people. Downward social comparisons may boost self-esteem by making us feel better about. To whom we compare ourselves? the self. Mcadams: the social self is like a good novel. We tell stories to make sense of conflict and to explain how we change over time. Patients in psychotherapy. coherent story and stories where the actor takes control of their lives. Knowledge about the self helps organize how we behave in different situations and with. Cognitive structures, derived from past experience, that represent a person"s beliefs and feeling about the self in a particular domain. The tendency for information that is related to the self to be more thoroughly processed and integrated with existing self-knowledge, thereby making it more memorable. Rogers and colleagues (1977): testing the self-reference effect.
