Social Psych M lec 10?

Self-awareness

A psychological state in which one is aware of oneself as an object.

looks at public and private self

Related personality variable: self-monitoring (how much self monitoring you do is generally indicative of self-awareness

public vs private awareness

how you are acting and being perceived by others, aware monitoring and regulating out behavior

• High in public self-consciousness > present self to others in favorable

  light

how you are thinking and feeling, likes dislike

• High in private self-consciousness > align behavior with internal

  standards

Self - perception theory

one way we might be able to understand ourselves is by 'stepping outside of ourselves' and looking at our own behavior- mindfulness i think?

Applied Importance of Self-Awareness

Caring for others involves empathic listening and awareness of the needs and feelings of patients / people as well as one’s own

too often social, educational, and healthcare professionals........

lead unbalanced lives in terms of work, relationships and personal time

Strive for perfection (unrealistic)

Deny our own needs and feelings

Assume total responsibility for the person / client /patient /student

Are altruistic to the point of self-denial

Self - concept

one’s knowledge of and thoughts about the set of qualities attributed to the self

Self-awareness necessary for self-concept development

Self - recognition in mirror: infants from about 18 months can do this

The “I” and the “Me”

Me:

• Self as known

• Objective self

• Material self

• Social Self

• Spiritual Self

I:

• Subjective self- the consciousness

• Thinker

• Inner self

• “I am”

• “I exist”

I can think about me

self-schema

Mental template by which we organize our worlds

self definition/concept

Self-reference Effect

When info is relevant to our self - concept >process it quickly & remember it well.

keep things moving because we don’t have to think about who we are sorta?

Self - discrepancy Theory

• Actual self

• Ought self - guide

• Ideal self - guide

If actual self does not line up with ought self

regulatory focus theory

prevention and promotion motivational systems

Spotlight effect

over estimating the extent that others are noticing andevaluating us

Illusion of transparency

The tendency for people to overestimate the extent others can recognize their internal thoughts, feelings, attitudes and intentions

Impact bias

Tendency for people to overestimate the length or intensity of future feeling states

Self - serving bias

is where people have a tendency to (gather information, process information) in such a manner as to advance our self-interest and support our preexisting views.

Autonoetic consciousness

is the human ability to mentally place ourselves in the past, future, or in counterfactual situations, and thus to be able to examine our own thoughts

Our sense of self affects our behavior in the present, past and future. It relates to how we reflect on our own past behavior, how we feel about it, and do we do it again.