Interpersonal Chap. 5

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mental processes and structures used to make sense of, remember, and think about people and interactions

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Social Cognition

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Four processes of Social Cognition

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Expectancies
Attributions
Person Perception
Stereotypes

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how social cognition can be used

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1. can influence interactions
2. guide our behaviors
3. influence perception and interpretation

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knowledge structures that help interpret remember, organize new info.
influence by culture and past experiences

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Schemata

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people's views of themselves and guide processing of information

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Self Schemata

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Types of Schemata

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Self
Event
Role
Person
(Relational)

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(scripts) help recognize typical ways in a sequence of actions tends to unfold

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Event Schemata

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Provides info about behavior based on social categories (appropriateness)

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Role Schemata

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(prototypes) Reflects people's understanding of inndividuals they know or types of ppl, guide interactions

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Person Schemata

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makes sense of love, friendship, famly and work bonds, predict intepret expect and remember mixture of other schematas

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Relational Schemata

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types of families

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pluralistic
consensual
laissez faire
protective

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type of family that is open and encourages discussion

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Pluralistic

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type of family with Pressure toward agreement and children involved without disturbing power structure

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Consensual

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type of family with little direction from parents to children, influenced by outside forces

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Laissez Faire

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type of family with obedience highly valued and family unit focused internally

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Protective

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Theory that shows way in which our general ways of thinking about relationships make interpreting behavior easier

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Relational Framing Theory

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a process of social cognition that guides communication by focusing on how we think ppl will/ought to communicate with us

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Interpersonal Expectancies

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occurs whenever one person's expectancies for another affect his or her own behavior and in turn, bring about the other's behavior

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Pygmalion Effect

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begins as a false definition of the situation, evoking a behavior that responds to that definition (preconceived notion)

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Self-Fulfilling prophecy

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expectancies in personal relationships lead to this process of meeting to marriage (6 steps)

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1. initiation
2. intensifying
3. Self-Disclosure
4. Sexual Intercourse
5. Integrating
6. Bonding

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whether or not our expectations are met, just have them (standards) is related to how happy our relationships make us

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Distressful Ideals Hypothesis

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when we try to determine why others acted in a certain way, we judge based on positive and negative attributes

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Expectancy Violations Theory

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to determine reasons for behaviors
when we perceive others and make judgements about them or ourselves

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Attributions

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dimensions of attributions

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Casual Loci (Locus)

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loci that depends on moods or feelings

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Internal Loci

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Loci that depends on environment

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External Loci

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whether a person's behavior is different in one situation than in others

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Distinctiveness

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extent to which behavior is the same

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consistency

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Perception of similar others in similar situation (comparison)

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Consensus

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part of attributions that is involved in blame for certain events (often like rapes or incest)

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Assessing responsibility

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states that people are more likely to assume actions are caused by internal attributes like personality traits

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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Peoples tendency to see own behaviors as less negative overall than others
bias based on feeling/opinions for each other

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Actor-Observer Bias

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tendency for unhappy to "see the worst", give ppl responsibility for negative behavior not for positive

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Distress-Maintaining Bias

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Happy ppl see the best
ppl seen as cause of and responsible for positive actions (not negative)

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Relationship-Enhancing Bias

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a process of social cognition described as our attempt to determine what others like and whether we like them

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Person Perception

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a theory stating we assume we can know someone relatively easily based on cues (consistency)

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Implicit personality theory

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knowledge that comes from learning about a person's characteristics as compared to info that is part of a general category or prototype

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Individuating Information

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self-concept developed because of how we seem to others

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reflected appraisal

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Why our self-view is important

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who we see ourselves as influences what goals we set and pursue
affect choices we make in interactions

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our beliefs about how others perceive us and the accuracy to the degree they match other's actual views of ourselves

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Metaperceptions

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reproduction/re-establishing of stereotypic knowledge over time through communication

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Stereotype maintenance

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communicators may have different identities in different situations
pertain to social categories

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Social Identity Model of Deindividualtion Effects (SIDE)

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anonymity of the interaction causes ppl to cling to salient identity most available

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Deindividuation

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making exaggerated or more certain judgements

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Overattributions