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13 Cards in this Set
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Social Psychology |
studies how humans interact w each other/ behave when with company |
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Social cognition |
-understanding of urself and others in social situations -processing social info |
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Impression formation |
- way we combine info we know about someone to create a template of them. |
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primacy effect |
first impressions very powerful - lay down initial template we use for someone, difficult to change |
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schemas |
general cognitive frameworks -incorporate knowledge about a person/place/event/ or thing -help guide our understanding of social situations |
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central traits |
-help organize and guide behaviour -based on personality/desires - broad -use to max. satisfaction of self, we engage in social, share, sacrifice etc. to meet needs of self--> assuming your a kind and social self |
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self-concept |
-your identity - western people have more individualized self-concepts (success aimed), asians have more collectivist self-concepts, aimed at avoiding failure. |
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self-schema |
organized thoughts/feelings that rep. you, your feelings, sense of self. |
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self-esteem |
how one feels about oneself -combination of pride and shame |
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how do we manage our self esteem |
- self-serving cognitions (concentrate on strengths) -self-handicapping (give lower baseline to start w) -downward social comparisons (comparing to those below you) -basking in reflected glory -cutting off reflected failure
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attribution |
any claim about the cause of someones behaviour |
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Heider |
people use environmental cues to make attributions to others behaviours. |
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Kelley |
developed a model that judged whether an action should be attributed to some trait of a person or to something about the environment |
