U09 Psych 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13.5: Social Comparison Theory, Positive Illusions, Terror Management Theory
1 Jan 2017
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Self-concept everything you know and believe about yourself. Ex: being a good athlete, good student: summarizes the relevant past information, may lead you to enhanced memory information that you process in reference to yourself. When a person processes trait adjectives self-referentially, the person is likely to recall the words better than comparable words processed only for their general meanings: ex: what does honest mean? vs. Will be more likely to remember the word. Self-esteem - the evaluative aspect of the self-concept in which people feel worthy or unworthy: a person"s emotional response to contemplating personal characteristics, people can objectively believe positive things about themselves without liking themselves very much. Mark leary proposed that self-esteem is a mechanism for monitoring the likelihood of social exclusion: assumes humans have a fundamental, adaptive need to belong. When people behave in ways that increase the likelihood that they will be rejected, they experience a reduction in self-esteem.
