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24 Cards in this Set
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strong situations |
tend to afford a narrower range of opportunities and threats for the people in them -tend to have obvious injunctive and descriptive norms -funerals |
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weak situation |
tend to afford a relatively wide range of opportunities and threats -characterized by a lack of clear descriptive norm -nightclubs |
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plurastic ignorance |
the phenomenon in which people in a group misperceive the beliefs of others because everyone acts inconsistently with their beliefs |
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injunctive norms |
a norm that defines what behaviors are typically approved or disapproved -what people typically should and should not do |
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descriptive norms |
a norm that defines what is commonly done in a situation -what people typically do |
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scripted situation |
a situation in which certain events are expected to occur in a particular sequence |
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affordances |
an opportunity or threat provided by a situation -attractive stranger - date -drunken driver - bodily harm |
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goals |
a desired outcome; something one wishes to achieve or accomplish |
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self-concept |
a mental representation capturing our views and beliefs about ourselves |
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self-schemas |
a mental representation capturing our general charateristics of episodes, events or ourselves (situation) |
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self-reflection |
when a self assesses their strengths and weaknesses, contemplating how to reach their goals and wondering how they come across to others |
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self-perception |
the process through which people observe their own behavior to infer internal characteristics such as traits, abilities, and attitudes |
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social comparison |
the process through which people come to know themselves by comparing their abilities, attitudes, and beliefs with those of others |
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upward social comparison |
socially comparing yourself to someone who is better off than you |
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downward social comparison |
socially comparing yourself to someone who is less fortunate than you |
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individualist |
someone oriented toward maximizing personal gains, without regard to the rest of the group |
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collectivist |
someone oriented toward their relationshisp and to prioritize the concerns of their relationship partners and groups before thier own |
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self-esteem |
our attitude toward ourselves |
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self-regulation |
the process through which people select, monitor and adjust their strategies in an attempt to reach their goals |
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attitudes |
a favorable or unfavorable evaluation of a particular person, object, event or idea |
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emotions |
relatively intense feelings characterized by physiological arousal and complex cognitions |
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interactiosn |
the person and the situation interact in various interesting ways to influence what we think, feel and do |
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-situations choose the person -persons choose their situations -different situations prime different parts of the person -persons change the situation -situations change the person |
Person X Situation Interactions |
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person-situation fit |
the extent to which a person and a situation are compatible |
