PSYC 307 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Essentialism, Capite Censi, Prefrontal Cortex
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American athletes: focussed more on how their performance reflected their own personal characteristics. Japanese athletes: focussed more on how their performance was guided by other"s expectations. How we perceive ourselves, and understand our identity plays a crucial role in how we think about many things. Self concept is implicated in: directing what information, we should attend to, how we derive meaning from events, kinds of relationships that we have, our emotions, what we are motivated to work towards. Define ourselves as creative individuals we think of having creative trait that exist across situations. Everyone is able to think of themselves in abstract psychological attributes and concrete roles and relationships (degree varies across cultures) Study: structure of the self; kenyans and americans college students, asking them to describe themselves: americans undergrads self descriptions: personal characteristics, traits, attitudes, abilities. Similar to nairobi undergrads: kenyans (workers, masai and samburu) self descriptions: reflected their social identity, roles and members.
