14-17 Notes
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- social psychology
- how we influence and are influenced by other ppl
- principle of social proof
- when we are unsure of how to behave we look around
- pluralistic ignorance
- at the same time we are looking around to see what to do so is everyone else
- werther effect
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copycat suicide, front pg. of paper
increase in suicides by similar ppl with similar method - principle of reciprocity
- reciprocate at equal levels
- door in the face technique
- you make a request that you know will be shot down and then you back off with the idea that the other person will reciprocate the concession. like bargaining
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Principle of commitment
foot-in-the-door -
agree to sm commitment increases chance that they will agree to larger commitment (billboards)
- lowballing
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change condit of commitment ride for spring break w st bernard
- captainitis
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pilot/copilot study
didn\'t question the captain - principle of liking
- tupperware parties
- impression mgmt theory
- links principles of social influence
- self concept
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the sum of the total beliefs you have about yourself
NOT an evaluation -
Cooley
looking glass self - other ppl are a mirror in which we see ourselves
- Mead\'s thoughts
- we come to know ourself by imaging what significant others think of us
- self conscious
- you tend to be self aware or self focused
- chronically self aware
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want to escape selves
adaptive ways: zone out w/tv
non adaptive: alcohol
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Baumeister
Escaping the self - ppls desire to escape self is a factor underlying alcoholism, suicide, eating disorders, masochism
- first person pronouns
- high state of self awareness in suicide notes
- deindividuation
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complete absence of self awareness
lose identity as part of a crowd - baiting crowds
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loss of identifiabilty
believe anonymous
like someone getting ready to jump off bridge, crowd develops, someone says jump! - self-esteem
- overall pos or neg eval of self
- lake wobegon effect
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cogn bias that causes ppl to overestimate their pos qual & abilities and to underest their neg qualities, relative to other
all kids in village better than avg --> we all feel we are better than everyone else (not everyone feels that) - social judgment
- how do i compare to everyone else
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how others see us
direct - reinforcement or punishment
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how others see us
indirect - like the msg sent to the kid picked last for sports \"you\'re not good\" it\'s implied
- motives for self enhancement
- behaviors that allow us to maintain enhance self esteem
- self serving attributions
- take credit for success but we deny responsibility for failure
- basking in reflected glory
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publicly announce affiliation w anothers success
football --> we won! - cutting off we reflected failure
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distance self from unsuccessful others
they lost (football) -
derogation of others
blasting - put everyone else down to feel better
- downward social comparison
- compare yourself to ppl who are worse off than you and then you feel better
- self-handicapping
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set yourself up to fail
top 2 ways:
behavioral self handicap
self reported self handicap - behavioral self-handicapping
- engage in behavior that sets you out to fail so if you fail you have an excuse
- self reported self handicapping
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making up an excuse
like i\'m sick i won\'t do well when you really aren\'t sicl -
excessively good samaritans
(self handicap) -
people who are \"losers in life\"
sacrifice life to take care of aging parent (i can\'t have this or that bc they need to take care of like old parents) - psych disorders info
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1/4 ppl with psych issues need help
women more likely to get it - organic disorders
- damage to central nervous system
- funct. disorders
- typically not an underlying phys condition
- Classical Method dividing Schizophrenia
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4 tier
what are the tiers??? -
catatonic- piano man
paranoid- gerald
hebephrenic- emotions that are inapprop. to situations - men get schizo earlier than women
- the rule of thirds
- 1/3 will be schizo and never recover, third will go in and out, a third will develop and come out (women more likely) bc more likely to develop in response to major event
- Contemporary method of classifying schizophrenia
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reactive- brought on by tragic event (women more likely)
process- (men more likely) - bipolar disorder
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periods of mania and depression
1.no apparent stress
2.lifts spontaneously overtime
3. will invariably occur
does well w/ meds - antisocial personality disorder
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guiltless
no compassion
no empathy
charming
narcissistic - fugue
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means flight
leave wake up in new place and have no idea of anything - dissociative identity disorder
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multiple personalities
some ppl dont believe thsi happens
sexual abuse as child --> want to dissociate - principal of authority
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dr milgram shocks
ppl will do things more often for experts - sources of self esteem
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behavioral performance
how we think others see us - 3 tiers psych disorders
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neuroses
psychoses
personality disorders - classification of abnormal behavior
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standard dev
cultural relativity
danger to self/others - psychosis symptoms
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1. cognitive-thought pattern disturbances
2.perceptual-hallucinations
3. affective-emot. disturbances
4. behavioral disturbances- odd mannerisms - 4 types of schizo
- exactly
- disorganized or simple schizo
- social withdraw, lack of interest
- catatonic schizo
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stupor with outbursts
rigid posture - paranoid schizo
- delusions of persecution
- hebephrenic schizo
- emotions inapprop to situations
- process schizo
- long term detioration little chance for recovery
- reactive schizo
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adequate pre-illness social development
illness caused by stresssor
prognosis good - schizo causes
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genetics
brain abnormalities
psych factors like stressful environ - anxiety disorders can lead to
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stress related depression
or
nervous breakdown - anxiety disorder types
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generalized anxiety disorder
phobic disorder
OCD - Dissociative Disorders
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Amnesia
Fugue
Multip. Personality - prosocial behavior
- behavior that produces pos soc conseq
- reciprocal inhibition
- when 2 responses inhibit each other only 1 may exist at a given moment