The Self And Self Regulation

Front 1

William James

Back 1

1) Constituents of Self
2) Self feelings
3) Actions of self

Front 2

Constituents of Self

Back 2

1) Pure self (I/ego) = aspect of self that actively experiences the world, stream of consciousness
2) Empirical self (me) = all the ways that people think about themselves
a) Material self - tanngible objects/people/places that carry the designation 'mine'
b) Social Self - how we are recognised by others
c) Spiritual self - attributes, abilities, pleasure, pain etc.

Front 3

Self feelings

Back 3

Self complacency/Self satisfaction
Self dissatisfaction

Front 4

Actions of Self

Back 4

Fundamental impulses that are designed to either improve/maintain self, prompted by emotion

Front 5

Self Schema (Markus)

Back 5

Cog generalisation about self derived from past experience
Organise + Guide the processing of self-related info

Front 6

Functions of a self -schema

Back 6

Determine what info is attended to, structure and the importance attached to it
Allows inferences to be made from limited info
Quickly interpret/streamline a complex series of events

Front 7

Depth of Processing Task - Rogers, Kulp + Kirker

Back 7

Judge 40 adjectives for structural equivalence, phonemic equivalence, semantic equivalence and self reference (self-discriptiveness of target word)
THEN unexpected recall of adjectives - self referencing = deeper processing, therefore, remembered better

Front 8

Motives of the self
Taylor, Neter + Weymount

Back 8

1) Self Assessment (objective and accurate)
2) Self enhancement (pos colouring of self relevant info)
3) Self verification (affirmation of preexisting self conception)
4) Self improvement

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Self Regulatory Principles

Back 9

1) Regulatory Anticipation (Hedonic principle)
2) Regulatory Reference (approach desired self, avoid undesired one)
3) Regulatory focus (Promotion vs. Prevention)