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Self- identity - Coggle Diagram
Self- identity
The self is made up of 3 main aspects
Self knowledge
you are what you know
the schema (internal represtntation) of you, the part of you that is you and no one else. You know the difference between you and someone else so we can assign self and other status to things out of instinct
Interpersonal
Agent self
the part of the self that is for doing things and making choices
It reflects upon itself and its store of knowledge and recruits the information it has in identity
But how do you know who you are?
trhough biographical details aboutyourself
you are aware of your bosy and your physical presence and yourself in comparison to others
there are 4 theories of where the self knowledge comes from
introspection
privilaged access to your mind, only you can directly access
but children have a tendecy to belive information about themselves give to them by a trusted other over their own self (rosenberg 1979)
people can also be bad at introspection and make up answers that make no sense (nisbett et al 1977
self-perception theory
Bem 1965
we learn who we are in the same way that everyone else learns who we are, observing what we do
Deci 1971
ps in a lab and carry out a boring task across 3 time points and record how long they do this task for
introduce a reward fro the experimental group (pay people to do that task at teach of the intervals)
taking away payment at time 3 for the experimental group shows that paying people to do something can make them believe that they are only doing it for the money,leading to a drop in intrinsic motivation
the looking glass self
Cooley 1902
self is reflected back to us through other people,
you can trust what people tell you, but if no-one tell you anything about yourself you have a self-concept
the more information that people give about the self, the more that the self concept is going to be altered by that perception of others on the self
social comparison
Festinger
You are a social animal, who you are and what you do/think/feel are most important in the context of other people and who they are and what they do/think/feel.
This means that we make upward comparisons against people where we look at other people that are perceived to be better than us, leading to either motivation or discouraging behaviour.
We can also make downward comparisons against people who are worse than we are, this tends to make us feel better about ourselves.
However these comparisons are not useful as an absolute measure but are only useful in relation to others.
Who you are as a person depends on other people as some knowledge comes from feedback from others and some knowledge comes from comparison with others.
However, the self concept is not the ‘true’ self. Self knowledge is not the true self as the true self does not exist, the self knowledge does not lead to any other type of self, they interact and overlap and are co dependant.
What you know about yourself may lead to actions, but those actions tell you something about yourself, similarly, what you know about yourself may affect social ties, but social ties also tell you about yourself.
The interpersonal self
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The interpersonal self is the part of the self that is for connecting to other people and existing within the social world. It is usually closely related to the self concept, but it is not the self concept. The public self is not a lie, but it is not the full self, we represent ourselves in the world therefore we do not always present the full self.
The interpersonal self = you are who you know, not what you know
Who you are depends on other people because part of understanding the self is understanding that you are a social entity.
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