PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Literature Review, Content Analysis, Ingroups And Outgroups
2 Nov 2015
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Self-concept is defined by our social world: how we are similar and different compared to others. People are constantly defining, discovering, creating and maintaining who we are and how we feel about ourselves through our interactions with the social world. Twenty statements test: asking individuals who they are receiving 20 answers to this question. Three aspects of the self are: self-concept: how we define or think about ourselves, self-esteem: how we evaluate or think of ourselves, social identity: what we show others. The set of ideas and inferences that you hold about yourself, including your traits, social roles, schemas, and relationships. The self is hard to know because we take center stage in our own lives presenting biases: people may try and control what information is being attributed to their self-concept. The motivation to hide certain aspects of the true self contributes to a lack of one"s self-knowledge.
