Abnormal Psychology Notes

PSYC3017 NOTES

Working With Attitudes-Towards-Self

1. Conceptualizing Personal and Social Aspects of Identity (Harre & Lamb)

* Self-awareness: The capacity to think in terms of one’s self-concept; to objectively reflect upon one’s characteristics and to know oneself.

* Self-concept: characteristics of the self as perceived by an individual, being the product of inferences drawn from personal experience, reflection on
that experience and awareness of the views of others of that individual. just as individuals are able to perceive, learn about, form concepts of, have memories of, and acquire emotional reactions to knowable objects in the world, so they also operate similarly with respect to self-as-an-object.

* Self-esteem: The evaluation that an individual makes and customarily maintains with regard to him/herself.

* Global vs multi faceted

* Self-schema: A cognitive generalisation about the self, derived from past experience, that organises and guides the processing of self-related information.

An Extra:

* Self Efficacy: An individual’s assessment of their ability to perform a task, attain a goal or to overcome obstacles and solve problems

Attitudes-Towards-Self

* Attitudes are summary evaluations of knowable objects, and that they involve a combination of beliefs about and feelings towards objects, acquired through direct or indirect experience of those objects

* We can acquire attitudes towards issues, things, other people, oneself overall, or to a range of different facets of oneself.

* Attitudes-towards-self-as-object = we acquire self-referent attitudes as we relate to our environment and other persons, these attitudes subsequently play a role in influencing our thinking and actions.

* Specific self-evaluations entail judgments about what are seen to be desirable or undesirable personal qualities - how one “ought to be” according to some set of values.

* John Maze- All attitudes are...