development of the social self - ️️-the roles we play
-social identities we form
-comparisons we make with others
-how others judge us
-the surrounding culture
How our "self" influences our behavior - ️️-social surroundings affect our selfawareness
-self-interest influences our social...
Psych 340 Exam 1 Marx
development of the social self - ✔️✔️-the roles we play
-social identities we form
-comparisons we make with others
-how others judge us
-the surrounding culture
How our "self" influences our behavior - ✔️✔️-social surroundings affect our self-
awareness
-self-interest influences our social judgement
- self concern motivates our social behavior
-social relationships help define our sense of self.
how do human values influence social psychology? - ✔️✔️- social psychologists'
values penetrate their work-choice of research, types of people attracted to, field of
study
- hidden assumptions when forming concepts
the big three - ✔️✔️Correlational, experimental, neuroscience
Correlational - ✔️✔️-Unrepresentative sample
-ordering of questions
-wording of questions(framing)
-response options- how strong/weak do you agree/disagree
-studies relationships among variables
Experimental - ✔️✔️pros:
cause and effect
control
precise
cons:unreal setting, engaging
1 person at a time
-seeks clues to cause and effect
neuroscience - ✔️✔️Pros: cause and effect, biology/physiology
easily control variables, precise
cons: angle of scanners affect precise data, newness, time, cost
Implicit associations - ✔️✔️our thoughts and beliefs
-focuses on our hidden bias
-beliefs/biases of which we may be unaware/unwilling to share
, word priming - ✔️✔️A set of words used to "prime" certain ideas, places or concepts,
activating particular associations--prejudgements affect how we perceive and interpret
information
Social psychology - ✔️✔️how people influence, think about, and relate to one another
-how we construe our social worlds
-how our social intuitions guide and sometimes deceive us
-our social behavior is shaped by others
social representations - ✔️✔️how we view the world from a collectove societal
standpoint and how that helps us understand the world around us
Random assignment - ✔️✔️Randomly assign people to the control or experimental
group in order to make sure any later difference is caused by research
mundane vs experimental realism - ✔️✔️mundane- everyday life- not needed in
experiments
experimental- engages participants in real psychological processes.
demand characteristics - ✔️✔️-cues that seem to demand responses-- are minimized
by standardizing instructions
spotlight effect - ✔️✔️a belief that others are watching us closely (when in fact they
aren't.)
illusion of transparency - ✔️✔️the belief that our emotions and thoughts are more
transparent to others than they actually are.
self-schemas - ✔️✔️-specific beliefs by which we define ourselves, and that influences
how we percieve the world around us
impact bias - ✔️✔️Overestimation of how long the "good feeling" will last after we get
what we want
dual attitude system - ✔️✔️-implicit- hard to change
vs
-explicit- easier to change with education and persuasion
self-efficacy - ✔️✔️ones belief in their ability/capability/competency
self serving attributions - ✔️✔️when things go well, attribute to self, when things go
poorly, attribute to outside factors
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