Psyc 2040 Exam 1

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scientific study of how individuals think and feel about, interact with, and influence each other, individually and in groups

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social psychology

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social psychology focuses on

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individual within an given social situation

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subject looks at large group behavior and systems in society

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sociology

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subject examines the role of genetics in behavior

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biology

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subject investigates the physical and cultural development of a species

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anthropology

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subject determines how economic, political, and technological trends influence behavior

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history

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father of social psychology, believed behavior is the function of a person in a certain situation

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Kurt

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Model of Social Behavior

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Individual characteristics >

social perception and cognition >

evaluation of situation >

intention to behave a certain way >

social behavior >

input from social situation >

individual characteristics and social perception and cognition.

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a strong predictor of behavior

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intention

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model of social behavior feeds back to

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social situation

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cognitive structure (the way we think about ourselves) containing organized and stable contents of all our experiences

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self

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these relate to our self

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memories

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through this we have more and more levels of which we can draw upon to organize all of these experiences

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experience

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assists us in understanding and predicting our own actions

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control device

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the self adds a level of this to our behavior

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predictability

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the self can also be this kind of guide letting us know what kinds of things will cause certain feelings in us

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emotional

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the self allows us to ______ certain social situations - when we feel comfortable. can also be used in a way to describe our normal state of consciousness.

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evaluate

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the self separates us from everything else, we know where we are and where everything else starts -- differences between ourselves and others.

people can lose their selves (mob behavior) temporarily, called ______, separating us from that what makes us individuals.

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deindividuation

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all the ideas and thoughts, information about our self

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self concept

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three components of the self

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private self

publich self

collective self

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how we see ourselves alone - separate from other people's ways of evaluation us - how we truthfully evaluate ourselves

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private self

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how we think others see us - we often try to manage this - if we generally get positive feedback from others - probably have a positive __ self

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public self

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how we think important people see us, impression of how parents see us - authority figure, etc.

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collective self