Psychology 2720A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Hazel Rose Markus, Extraversion And Introversion, Hominidae

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: Mike Morrison

Document Summary

Self-concept: refers to all information about the self in memory (this is extensive) Involves all memories about the past & all expectations about the future. Structures used to impose order and make info about the self easily retrievable: hazel markus suggests that people have self-schemas in certain. Self-schema & extraversion: if you consider yourself very extraverted/introverted & this is part of aschematic in this dimension. Markus asked people to rate how domains certain domain about the self in that domain: this means that this person has strong beliefs/expectations important a domain is to them. If they have high rating then the dimension is important to them & they are schematic. Identity: refers to the specific characteristics that people think define them, so it is more limited than self-concept. Self-esteem: refers to people"s judgements of their own worthiness; whether they are generally good or deficient individuals.