[PSYCH 253] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 56 pages long Study Guide!
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The study of the self is one of the earliest topics in social psychology. William james wrote first psychology textbook, mostly on the self. In the 1980s is when people really started looking at the effects of the self on perception and memory. What can improve your ability to remember a list of words: structural bad, memory is really terrible (remember the letters in the word), Phonemic bad, pretty poor encoding strategy (remember what rhymes with words), semantic good, improves encoding (think about what the word means: *self-reference best, dramatically improves memory (how the word relates to you) Developed by hazel markus wanted to use self-schemes and see if it changes the way that we process information. Schemes: a way to understand the world (the lens through which you look at the world. Self-schemes: the dominant way we tend to think of ourselves. Hazel markus brought in people who described themselves as 1) independent 2)
