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15 Cards in this Set
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Social Context
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Personal and interpersonal settings and motivations
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Social Psychology
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Examines the influence that social context has on the way people think, feel, and behave.
Internal: External: |
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Self-Concept
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Sum of one's beliefs and attitudes toward onself
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Introspection
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Looking inside to gain self relevant knowledge
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Self-perception theory
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Even if a behavior is automatic, we will try to infer the reasoning behind the behavior
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Autobiographical memories
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Memories for events that have taken place in one's life
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Recency Effect
Reminiscence Bump |
age 60 & beyond, percent of memories increases from 15 to 30
around age 20, percent of memories is average 15% |
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Medial prefrontal area
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turned on when we think about ourselves
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Above-average effect
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Occurs when, collectively speaking, more than 50% of a group rate themselves to be above average on some task or ability
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Self-serving bias
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Individuals are more likely to take credit for success than failures
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Impression management
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strategies or steps taken to guide or influence how a person appears to others
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Self-handicapping
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A self-protective strategy in which one arranges for an obvious and non-threatening obstacle to one's own performance, such that any failure can be attributed to the obstacle and not to one's own limitations
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Typically, we use our _____ to shape our own behaviors
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attitudes
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Foot-in-the-door technique
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A technique of persuasion in which one first obtains a small concession
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Cognitive dissonance
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Unpleasant feeling
1. that emerges from an inconsistency within the self 2. that is reduced via a reinterpretation of self-related knowledge to eliminate the inconsistency |