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JH Mental Control
Bristol Social Psychology Second Year
| Question | Answer | Flap 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Definition of repression | UNCONCIOUS rejection of a thought | (blank) |
| Definition of suppression | CONCIOUS rejection of a thought | (blank) |
| Wegner et al (1987) | "Don't think about white bear", thought and spoke about it a bit | "Now you can talk about anything", thought and spoke about it loads, IRONIC POST SUPPRESSION REBOUND EFFECT |
| Wegner et al (1992) | Communication inhib. | secret relationships/unrequited love = think about it more, |
| Wegner et al (1994) | Footsie game | playing footsie in secret makes someone more attractive |
| Wegner (1993) | emotion inhibition | mood suppression backfires |
| Salkovskis & Reynolds (1994) | craving inhibition | Smoking |
| Suppression readiness | We suppress when a thought keeps stopping our stream of conciousness | (blank) |
| Distractor associations | Distractors wont work if they're associated with whatever it is you're trying to not think about | So in Wegner (1987), no good using distractors from testing lab as they're all associated, have to move labs to get good distractors |
| Martin (1993) | Goal interruption | IPSRE because of Zeigarnik effect, motivation to fulfil a blocked goal |
| Wegner (1992) i | Ironic process theory. Operator - concious, defines what we're suppressing and looks for distractors, needs cog resources. Once found distractor turns off, monitor looks for traces of unwanted thought. If finds, operator comes back on. | Not just priming as occurs even when primed in not suppressed condition. |
| Wegner & Erber (1992) | When you deplete cog resources, operator knackered out during supression so when you stop supressing, even greater IPSRE | used a timed condition word assoc task, and stroop task - Stereotype supp. & false memories |
| Macrae, Bodenhausen, Milne & Jetten (1994) | Supp & stereotypes | Suppressed people more stereotypical of skin heads than non-suppresed. In EXP 2 they sat further away from teh chair with "skin-head" props-shows it in real life. |
| So when do we supress stereotypes? | Violate internal standards so we feel guilty and then increase self focus (Devine, 1989), OR just Increased self focus strengthens internal beliefs (Macrae et al, 1998) | (blank) |
| Peters, Jelicic & Merckelbach (2006) | Stereo supp & false memories | prime with neg. stereotype group & told to suppress. Played a tape of racially neutral crime and then recalled more false memoried concordent w steretype than if not asked to supp. |
| Trauma | if suppress early on then can interfere with cognition later on in life | aaron et al 1999 |
| OCD | Janeck & Calamari (1999) try harder to suppress but cannot and get upset. Smari et al (1994), obsessional people find it harder to suppress. | (blank) |
| Depression | Wenzlaff et al (1998) depressed ppl use more negative distractors, '91, make associations between distractors and bad feeling. Therefore distractors no good, 1998, supp actually prolongues depression | (blank) |
| Nastegaal et al (2005) | looked at diff stragtegies for controlling aggressive fantasies. | Suppression, distraction and re-appraisal used (worrying and social coping not used). Supp. correlated with aggression, distraction best for control. |
| Success of suppression | dependent on emotional charge, neutrality & relevance to current concerns. | (blank) |
| Could try..... | concentrating on goal, using more effective distractors & expressing unwanted thoughts. | (blank) |
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