PSY 411 - SELF & SELF ESTEEM EXAM 1
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025/2026
The self - ANS how people think/feel & want to think/feel about themselves;
thoughts/feelings guide behavior
I - ANS aspect that experiences the world, conscious awareness; distinguishes self from
others; reveals what we can/cannot control; provides unity of experiences over time
me - ANS ideas of what we are like; affects information processing & behavior; motivational
function; imagine future selves (may help or hinder)
introspectionism - ANS look inward (internal feelings); analysis of consciousness; Wilhelm
Wundt, early 1900s
behaviorist movement - ANS 1915-1955, John Watson, BF Skinner, Clark Hull; study overt
behavior
assumptions of behaviorist movement - ANS positivism, mechanism
positivism - ANS concrete, observable measurement
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, mechanism - ANS stimulus-response bonds
Aristotle - ANS essence of a person and identity = soul = form
John Locke - ANS identity = memory, difference between man and person; implications for
moral ability, human mind is reflexive; first early childhood memories = beginning of identity
David Hume - ANS identity = fiction; rapid thoughts give illusion of identity; we confuse time
with identity
William James - ANS identity = memory for feelings about self
James' material self - ANS bodily self; extended self (psychologically attached to)
James' social self - ANS social roles, identities
James' spiritual self - ANS inner, psychological self; personality traits; emotions & attitudes;
not visible to others
James' self feelings - ANS emotions with self as a reference point
what determines self feelings? - ANS emotional reactions do not depend on object
outcomes; example: olympics study (Medvec, Madey, Gilovich, 1995)
self perception theory - ANS gain self knowledge by observing behavior
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025/2026
The self - ANS how people think/feel & want to think/feel about themselves;
thoughts/feelings guide behavior
I - ANS aspect that experiences the world, conscious awareness; distinguishes self from
others; reveals what we can/cannot control; provides unity of experiences over time
me - ANS ideas of what we are like; affects information processing & behavior; motivational
function; imagine future selves (may help or hinder)
introspectionism - ANS look inward (internal feelings); analysis of consciousness; Wilhelm
Wundt, early 1900s
behaviorist movement - ANS 1915-1955, John Watson, BF Skinner, Clark Hull; study overt
behavior
assumptions of behaviorist movement - ANS positivism, mechanism
positivism - ANS concrete, observable measurement
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, mechanism - ANS stimulus-response bonds
Aristotle - ANS essence of a person and identity = soul = form
John Locke - ANS identity = memory, difference between man and person; implications for
moral ability, human mind is reflexive; first early childhood memories = beginning of identity
David Hume - ANS identity = fiction; rapid thoughts give illusion of identity; we confuse time
with identity
William James - ANS identity = memory for feelings about self
James' material self - ANS bodily self; extended self (psychologically attached to)
James' social self - ANS social roles, identities
James' spiritual self - ANS inner, psychological self; personality traits; emotions & attitudes;
not visible to others
James' self feelings - ANS emotions with self as a reference point
what determines self feelings? - ANS emotional reactions do not depend on object
outcomes; example: olympics study (Medvec, Madey, Gilovich, 1995)
self perception theory - ANS gain self knowledge by observing behavior
2 @COPYRIGHT 2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
