PSYC 241 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Motivation
7 Apr 2015
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If we think we can"t change our behaviours to match our internal standards, we try to avoid thinking about it/introspecting: self awareness can be good because it reminds you of your morals/ideals, since non western cultures have a self perspective that is more dependent on how others see them, they are said to be in a chronic state of self awareness (always seeing themselves through other people"s eyes) Judging why we feel the way we do: telling more than we can know: telling more than we can know phenomena (cid:224) when the explanations we create for our feelings and behaviours go beyond what we can reasonably know (eg. make logical sounding theories that explain our behaviour somewhat and go along with them, causal theories: theories about the causes of one"s own feelings and behaviours; often we learn such theories from our culture (eg. absence makes the heart grow fonder)
