PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Positive Illusions, Learned Helplessness, Basking In Reflected Glory
16 May 2012
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The notion that people learn about themselves from other people. But if we learned everything about ourselves from other people, then there wouldn"t be a difference between what you thought about yourself and what others thought about you. It is expected that we have the ability to look inside ourselves, and to try to rate ourselves as accurately as possible. One of the things that research has suggested is that our concepts of self has a huge impact on how we will be behaving and the types of goals that we will be able to achieve. Maybe if you have a negative self-concept, you feel like you don"t have the means to achieve goals; so you won"t even try. When an organism keeps getting exposed to uncontrolled events, the organism learns that it has no control about the outcomes of certain situations.
