PSYCO347 Chapter 2.1: Psychology 347 - Chapter 2.1
10 Oct 2018
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First framework psychologist uses to understand the self is : self-concept. Self-concept: your beliefs about who and what you are. Example: you might consider yourself athletic, intelligent, responsible, sensitive, witty, quiet, compassionate, or brace. sister, brother, mother, father, friend, student, etc. Can also include your social roles or relationships such as son, daughter, One way our self-concept translates is through self-evaluation. Self-evaluation: our human tendency to seek out and pay attention to information that con rms or veri es our self-concept ( our stability factor ). Self-enhancement: our self-concept puts a positive spin on our interpretation of information, unconsciously skewing it i an encouragement direction: our basic human need to feel good about ourselves, our positive bias . It is universal; meaning both individualist and collectivist cultures both have self-enhancement. But for people in the collectivist cultures, their positive enhancement goes beyond front themselves and reaches out to their loved ones.
