PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Affective Forecasting, Collectivism, Word Game
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Chapter 3 social psychology: self- concept: overall beliefs about your own attributes. These beliefs influence what we notice about the world and how we process self-relevant information: self-concept is one aspect of the self that refers to the known or the me (the known is your knowledge about you). It is the state of being aware of oneself as an object of one"s thoughts. Lower if you view your attributes as being less favorable. life and relationships with others. We are who we think we are and with no knowledge of ourselves we have no sense of identity: self as decision maker: decisions we make reflect our goals, principles, priorities and values. Our smaller decisions need to be consistent with our larger goals: self as a regulatory system: we have to maintain self despite individual diverse and contradicting goals. Failure to match behavior to ideals is due to it being exhausting to exercise restraint.
