PSY325H5 Lecture 5: PSY325 Lecture 5.1

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY325H5
• Professor: Simone Walker

Document Summary

Lecture 5. 1 functions of the self: main self-motives continued, self-enhancement, self-assessment, motivation to reduce uncertainty about one"s abilities or personal characteristics, uncertainty is reduced by obtaining an objective accurate picture of the self. Involves impartial search for objective facts: not a biased search for preferred facts, key is diagnosticity of the task outcome or personality attribute, has several implications for cognition, emotion and behaviour, ex. Task preferences, social comparisons, expectations: self-verification, motivation to verify one"s preexisting self-conceptions, people will selectively process self-relevant information in a way that, verifies, confirms or affirms self-conceptions that they are certain of, ex. Seek out favourable information to verify positive self-conceptions: ex. Seek out un-favourable information to verify negative self- conceptions: key is consistency between the task outcome or personality attribute and self- conceptions, can help to bolster the predictability and controllability of the social world, ex. Making one"s social interactions smoother: has several implications for cognition, emotion and behaviour, ex.