PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Meta-Analysis, Substance Abuse, Impression Formation

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 333
• Professor: Arash Abizadeh

Document Summary

Cognitive: tendency to rely on case-based information and discount base rate information; anchoring and insufficiently adjusting. When we make judgements about the self, it is often by way of comparisons to others. One way the social context has been understood to influence our sense of self is the notion of reflected appraisals. The idea: others" appraisals of us shape our self-understanding: One of the earliest formulations of this idea was the notion of: the looking glass self (cooley, Another similar approach is: symbolic interaction (mead, 1934). The self is developed and understood in the social realm. Others" appraisals shape our understanding of ourselves. Taken to extreme, how others see us = the way we see ourselves. Reality does not exist out there but rather reality is actively created as we act in and towards the world . Correlations between self-views and others" views are small. At best, this association was a fairly small effect.