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28 Cards in this Set
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the sum total of an individual’s beliefs about his or her own personal attributes |
Self-concept |
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a belief people hold about themselves that guides the processing of self-relevant information |
Self-schema |
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the process of prediction how one would feel in response to future emotional events |
Affective forecasting |
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the theory that when internal cues are difficult to interpret, people gain self-insight by observing their own behavior |
Self-perception theory |
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people overestimate the strength and duration of their emotional reactions |
Impact bias |
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the hypothesis that changes in facial expression can lead to corresponding changes in emotion |
Facial feedback hypothesis |
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the theory that people evaluate their own abilities and opinions by comparing themselves to others |
Social comparison theory |
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explains the source of arousal |
Cognitive interpretation |
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the theory that the experience of emotion is based on two factors: physiological arousal and cognitive interpretation of that arousal |
Two factor theory of emotion |
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group informed that they are taking a drug and what the effects are |
Drug informed group |
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group that doesn’t know the effects of the drug |
Drug uninformed group |
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conforming culture (like Asian countries and Latin America) |
Interdependent |
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an eastern system of thought that accepts the coexistence of contradictory characteristic within a single person |
Dialecticism |
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an affective component of the self, consisting of a person’s positive and negative self-evaluations |
Self-esteem |
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a mechanism that enables us to detect acceptance and rejection and then translate these perceptions into high and low self-esteem |
Sociometer |
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the theory that humans cope with the fear of their own death by constructing worldview that help to preserve their self-esteem |
Terror management |
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the theory that self-focused attention leads people to notice self-discrepancies, thereby motivating either an escape from self-awareness or a change in behavior |
Self-awareness theory |
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the process by which people control their thoughts feelings, or behavior in order to achieve a personal or social goal |
Self-regulation |
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a nonconscious form of self-enhancement |
Implicit egoism |
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behaviors designed to sabotage one’s own performance in order to provide a subsequent excuse for failure |
Self-handicapping |
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setting yourself up for failure |
Sandbagging |
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to increase self-esteem by associating with others who are successful |
Bask in reflected glory (BIRG) |
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the defensive tendency to compare ourselves with others who are worse off than we are |
Downward social comparison |
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strategies people use to shape what others think of them |
Self presentation |
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consists of our efforts to shape others’ impressions in specific ways in order to gain influence, power, sympathy, or approval |
Strategic self presentation |
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motivated by the desire to get along with others and be liked |
Ingratiation |
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the desire to have others perceive us as we truly perceive ourselves |
Self verification |
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the tendency to change behavior in response to the self presentation concerns of the situation |
Self monitoring |
