PSC 162 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Carol Dweck, Procedural Knowledge, Albert Bandura
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According to william james, the self includes the me, the object of self - knowledge, and the i, the mysterious entity that does the knowing. Psychology has much more to say about the me than the i. The contents & purposes of the self. In terms of the me, the self comprises everything we know, or think we know, about what we are like, including both declarative & procedural self - knowledge. Psychologists have proposed that the self has 4 purposes: self - regulation, information filtering, understanding others, & maintaining identity. The declarative self includes self - esteem, one"s opinion of one"s own worth. Esteem can cause problems when it is too low or too high because, according to leary"s sociometer theory, it serves as a useful gauge of one"s social standing. Psychologists theorize that the wide range of knowledge one has about one"s psychological attributes is located in a cognitive structure called the self - schema.
