PSYCH 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cocktail Party
Document Summary
Self-awareness - psychological state in which one takes oneself as an object of attention - franzoi. Connection to evolution theme by looking at other species. Self-reference effect - tendency for information related to the self be more readily processed and remembered than other information. Cocktail party effect - ability to pick out a personally relevant stimulus out of a complex environment. Ex: hearing your name at a party. Schema - knowledge structure of any organized body of stored information. Self schemas - cognitive structure, derived from past experience, that represents a person"s beliefs and feelings about the self in general and in specific situations. People are schematic on dimensions that are. On which they think of themselves as extreme. On which they"re certain the opposite is true. Reflected self-appraisals - a belief about what others think of one"s self. Working self-concept - subset of self-knowledge that is brought to mind in a particular context.
