PSYC 201 Lecture 3: Social Psychology Chapter 3 Notes

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 201
• Professor: Pete Ondish

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The social self: the self is not independent of the environment, it is constructed, maintained, & negotiated in the social environment, the social self is a malleable self! Nature of the social self: self- a person"s particular nature or qualities that make a person unique and distinguishable from others. I am ___________: traits: characteristic ways that you think, feel, and act that make you different from others. Self-schemas: self-schema: cognitive structures, derived from past experience, that represent a person"s beliefs and feelings about the self in particular domains (markus, 1977), we each have a self-schema about how extraverted we are. Based on situations where extraversion is relevant (i. e. , parties) I. e. i like myself, i think i am a person of worth, etc. Origins of self-knowledge: where does this information about the self come from? (it"s certainly not all biology), we"ll mainly focus on: family and other socialization agents, situationism, culture, gender,