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Social C. Chapt. 2
The Self in a social world
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Spotlight effect | Belief people are always paying attention to you when they really aren't |
| Illusion of transparency | Illusion that our emotions seek out really easily, but really they dont. |
| Self-concept | Who am I? |
| Self-Schema | Beliefs about self that organize and guide us |
| Self-reference effect | We remember information regarding us the best |
| Possible selves | We can imagine who we want to be and don't want to be. |
| Social comparison | Evaluationing ourselves to other people |
| Individualism | Concept of giving priority to our goals rather that others. Personal attributes are more important that groups. |
| Collectivism | Giving priority to groups instead of ourselves. Family is an example of this. |
| Interdependent self | Construing one's identity in relation to others. |
| Confederate | A person who helps an experimenter out with his research projects. |
| Impact bias | Overestimating the enduring impact of emotion-causing events. |
| Immune neglect | The human tendency to neglect the speed of psychological immune system, which enables emotional recovery after bad thigns happen. |
| Dual attitudes | Automatic attitudes and consciously controlled attitudes that occur. We can hate something at first but than change our minds and love it. |
| Self-esteem | A person's overall self-evaluation or sense of self-worth. |
| Self-efficacy | A sense that one is competative and effective. Having high self-efficacy could lead to more persistance, less anxiety, and lower depression. |
| Locus of control | The extent to which people perceive outcomes as internally controllable by their own efforts or controlled by outside factors. |
| Learned helplessness | From repeating a making constant mistakes people can get to a mindset of feelign totally helpless and lost. |
| Self-serving bias | Tendency to perceive oneself favorably |
| Self-Serving attributions | Good things we caused, bad things happened because of other people. Duh! lol. |
| Unrealistic optimism | Being to optimistic can lead people to overestimate things. Such as I won't get hurt in a car accident if I don't wear my seatbelt, it won't happen to me. |
| Defensive pessimism | Harnessing anxiety to motivate effective action by anticipating problems. |
| False consensus effect | Tendency to think one's undesirable actions are common occurances when really they are not. |
| False uniqueness | Tendency to underestimate how common other people are just as good as you with many things! |
| Group serving bias | Explaining away outgroup members positive behaviors aslo attributing negative behaviors to their dispositions. Thinking your group is better than others. If they aren't you blame your group for it not yourself. |
| Self-handicapping | Protecting yourself by creating behaviors to blame in the future. |
| Self-presentation | Expressing yourself in ways to are favorable and correspond to your own ideas. Presenting a desired image of ourselves. |
| Self-monitering | Tuning in to the way you present yourself and changing performance based on desired impression. Think social chameleon "Change to fit situation." |
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