PSYC 231 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cognitive Dissonance, Spindle Neuron, Role Theory
5 Apr 2018
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We think about ourselves differently in north america because when we talk about the self it tends to be situational. Researchers from this perspective investigate how people create meaning through social interaction, and how they construct and represent the self and how they define situations when they are with others. The complete set of beliefs people have about themselves. Different dimensions of the self that together form the self-concept. How we expect ourselves to think, feel and behave in a particular situation. Beliefs about oneself that help people process self-relevant information. Self-schematic on a dimension: feel that they are for sure higher or lower on a dimension and it is important to them. Self-aschematic: if a dimension is unimportant to a persons sense of self. It is important to have complex and varied self-schemas then so that there are always "spare" Low self-complexity (not many roles, more overlap) predicts illness, where as high self-complexity does not.
