GenPsych Course 2020, Personality & Social 3:The Self
Channel: Randall O'Reilly
Date: 28/11/2020

Lecture 3 of 10 for Chapter 9: Personality and Social
Principles of Psychology & Neuroscience Textbook: https://PrinciplesOfPsych.org

The "self" can be understood as an internal predictive model that attempts to organize all of the disparate inputs and outputs around a common causal entity: you.  To maintain control, we like to maintain at least the semblance of a "rational" self-model, which plays out in various phenomena such as cognitive dissonance. We also use our own self model to understand others, with varying degrees of success.