PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Roy Baumeister, Tabula Rasa, Social Comparison Theory
27 Oct 2014
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Other people tell you who you are. Self-concept or self-knowledge (me): what you know about yourself. Self-awareness (i) (memories): the i know eg. i know i can improve at tennis. Three features of self (baumeister, 1986): self includes the body: cross cultural consistency, can"t be a spirit (has to be a physical body, self includes social identity: who are you in society eg. canadian, student at. Uog, every self has a social identity: self is the active agent: you make the decisions for yourself eg. how to regulate our emotions. Self-comparison: by comparing yourself to other and through experiences you start to define who you are eg. compared to your friend you are better at hockey therefore define yourself as a hockey player. Feedback from others: peers, friends, family, teachers also help to define who you are. You always gets an a in math may help you to define yourself as good in math.
