Social Psychology Myers Ch 2

Front 1

Spotlight effect

Back 1

The belief that others are paying more attention to one's appearance and behavior than they really are.

Front 2

Illusion of transparency

Back 2

The illusion that our concealed emotions leak out and can be easily read by others

Front 3

slef-concept

Back 3

A person's answers to the question, "who am I?"

Front 4

self-schema

Back 4

beliefs about self that organize and guide the processing of self-relevant information.

Front 5

possible selves

Back 5

images of what we dream of or dread becoming in the future

Front 6

medial prefontal cortex

Back 6

a neuron path located in the cleft between your brain hemispheres just behind your eyes, seemingly helps stitch together your sense of self

Front 7

social comparison

Back 7

evaluating one's abilities and opinions by comparing oneself with others

Front 8

individualism

Back 8

the concept of giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications

Front 9

collectivism

Back 9

giving priority to the goals of one's groups (often one's extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly

Front 10

interdependent self

Back 10

construing one's identity in relation to others

Front 11

planning fallacy

Back 11

the tendency to underestimate how long it will take to complete a task

Front 12

impact bias

Back 12

overestimating the enduring impact of emotion-causing events

Front 13

immune neglect

Back 13

the human tendency to underestimate the speed and the strength of the "psychological immune system," which enables emotional recovery and resilience after bad things happen.

Front 14

dual attitudes

Back 14

differing implicit (automatic) and explicit (consciously controlled) attitudes toward the same object. Verbalized explicit attitudes may change with education and persuasion; implicit attitudes change slowly, with practice that forms new habits.