PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Fundamental Attribution Error, Terror Management Theory, Social Comparison Theory

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

Self-concept: an individual"s perception of self, including knowledge, feelings, and ideas about oneself: it is used as a basis for how we describe ourselves, a person"s self-concept is comprised of many different components or self-schemas. Self-schema: beliefs people hold about themselves that guid how thy process self-relevant information how they categorize and store information about themselves. Schematicity influences how we behave in any given situation and how we remember past events: people tend to reconstruct their memories for past events or behaviours in a schema-consistent manner. You tend to perceive and judge other people in terms of schema-relevant dimensions ex. If you view yourself as honest and fair, you are likely to harshly evaluate a stranger whom you see hop the bus without paying his fare. Self-awareness: the ability to recognize oneself as a distinct entity: this is an important factor in developing self-concept.