Ch. 10: Social Psychology Part 1
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- Social Context
- Personal and interpersonal settings and motivations
- Social Psychology
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Examines the influence that social context has on the way people think, feel, and behave.
Internal:
External: - Self-Concept
- Sum of one's beliefs and attitudes toward onself
- Introspection
- Looking inside to gain self relevant knowledge
- Self-perception theory
- Even if a behavior is automatic, we will try to infer the reasoning behind the behavior
- Autobiographical memories
- Memories for events that have taken place in one's life
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Recency Effect
Reminiscence Bump -
age 60 & beyond, percent of memories increases from 15 to 30
around age 20, percent of memories is average 15% - Medial prefrontal area
- turned on when we think about ourselves
- Above-average effect
- Occurs when, collectively speaking, more than 50% of a group rate themselves to be above average on some task or ability
- Self-serving bias
- Individuals are more likely to take credit for success than failures
- Impression management
- strategies or steps taken to guide or influence how a person appears to others
- Self-handicapping
- A self-protective strategy in which one arranges for an obvious and non-threatening obstacle to one's own performance, such that any failure can be attributed to the obstacle and not to one's own limitations
- Typically, we use our _____ to shape our own behaviors
- attitudes
- Foot-in-the-door technique
- A technique of persuasion in which one first obtains a small concession
- Cognitive dissonance
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Unpleasant feeling
1. that emerges from an inconsistency within the self
2. that is reduced via a reinterpretation of self-related knowledge to eliminate the inconsistency