Psych 350 Textbook Notes Ch 3 The Social Self Self knowledge is stored in memory in an organized manner o Self schemas the most basic organizational units are cognitive structures that affect how we process and remember information as well as how we make judgments about ourselves and the social world o Self complexity is defined by the number and degree of overlap among a person s self schemas Self esteem the positive or negative overall evaluation that each person has of himself or herself o People with low self esteem are less satisfied with life more hopeless and more depressed and they are less able to cope with life s challenges o Self esteem represents how we feel about our attributes and qualities our successes and failures our self worth o TRAIT self esteem is a person s enduring level of self regard across time People who rate that they have a high level of self esteem at one time will rate the o STATE self esteem refers to the dynamic changeable self evaluations that are experienced same thing years later as momentary feelings about the self Much of your working self concept changes from one context to the next so too does your state self esteem which rises and falls according to transient moods and specific construal processes that arise in different situations Contingencies of self worth an account of self esteem that maintains that self esteem is contingent on successes and failures in domains on which a person has based his or her self worth o Self esteem is contingent on that is rises and falls with successes and failures in domains on which a person has based his or her self worth Ex My self esteem gets a boost when I get a good grade on an exam or paper o Our self esteem relies heavily on our contingencies of self worth
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