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Chp. 15 - The Self (Possible selves (People report desiring future selves…

- - - - Do I agree with this statement?
      - Why or why not
      - Is it useful?
      - Does it contradict anything else I know from experience or have learned in the course?
- - - - Procedural self can be changed, only through practice and feedback
      - Big difference between declarative and procedural knowledge, the first can be taught by reading or listening to lectures; the second, only through practice and feedback.
  - - - Most patterns relating to others are deeply ingrained and difficult to change, set early on in life
- - - - Declarative knowledge: Facts and impressions that we consciously know and can describe, can declare
      - Procedural knowledge: Expressed through actions actions rather than words, patterns of social skills, style of relating to others (relational self), can be unconscious behaviour (implicit self)
- - - - IAT measures extroversion and neuroticism, which predicted behaviour better than self-report tests
- - - - Lower levels correlation with depression, loneliness, delinquency
      - Declines appear to cause outcomes like depression, lower satisfaction with relationships, and more
      - high self-esteem + high agreeableness = more likely to disclose emotional distress to their relationship partners, while high self-esteem + low agreeableness didn't, as trust wasn't there
      - Desire to improve self-esteem rooted in nature, as ancestors' self-esteem would dictate their lives/acceptance from others
      - Having too high self-esteem not good either, can lack self-awareness and critical reflection, and be too arrogant, abusive, etc.
      - How you feel about yourself is not completely a result of your own abilities, accomplishments, virtues, or even psychological health. Your self-worth is to some extent telegraphed to you by society, which might teach you that you are inferior (or superior) because of attribute beyond your control (race, gender, etc.)
- - - - S-data: if a person rate themselves highly on a particular scale, and that scale/trait is important to them, they are deemed "schematic for" that trait/scale
      - B-data: Reaction times to seeing specific words and judging whether that trait applies to them or not measured.
- - - - Your ideal self represents the goal state of focus on what you desire —the state where you finally attain all of the rewards you seek