The Self - The organizational function of the self: the self as mental representation
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What is the name of a person's idea of their combined beliefs about themselves, which gives them coherence and meaning to their experiences and relationships?
EX: everything they use when they are asked to describe themselves: characteristics, social roles, values, goals, fears, etc.
The self-knowledge that forms the self-concept - a person's combined ideas about themselves to give their experiences and relationships coherence and meaning - can be categorized into what two types?
- Self-schemas
- Self-esteem
What is the name of the mental structures that help us organize and guide the processing of self-related information, from the past as well as the present?
EX: extraversion, independence
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What is the name of the tendency a person has to process and remember self-related information better than other information?
EX: due to this tendency, research showed that if people are tasked with describing other things and themselves with traits, they were later able to recall the traits they described themselves with better. Basically, self-schemas provide a frame in which people process their experiences faster/deeper
What is the name of the part of a person's self-concept that is activated and guides our behavior in a given situation, since only a smaller subset of the self-concept is directly relevant to the situation?
EX: at a party your easy-going self comes out, at a meeting your formal and restrained self comes your
What is a person's self-esteem, which our self-knowledge also contains in addition to the more cognitive representations/self-schemas of who we are and can be (actual, desired, ought self; implicit, explicit self)?
What is the name of a domain on which a person stakes their self-worth (and thus affects self-esteem)?
EX: internal - virtue, external - power
In the dimension of independent versus interdependent self to the self-concept: what does the independent self (westerners) emphasize, and using what attributes does it define its self?
internal attributes like traits (EX: smart)
In the dimension of independent versus interdependent self to the self-concept: what does the interdependent self (east asians) emphasize, and using what attributes does it does it define the self?
external attributes like relational or group identities (college student)
What is the name of the tendency to boost the positivity of our self-conceptions, often more than what is objectively necessary, which is achieved through different strategies?
EX different strategies: self-serving attributions, basking in reflected glory, positive self-presentations
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