7.2 Social-Cognitive and Self

Question 1

Social- Congnitive theories

Answer 1

Individual thought+ Social interaction= behavior
how situations affect individuals and how situationss are affected by individuals

Question 2

Recriprocal Determinism

Answer 2

Individuals are not only shaped by their sorroundings, but impact sorroundings by their attitude ( internal cognition) and behavior
ex- triangle , student has positive attitude with school( Internal), studies more ( behavior) and gets and A ( Enviroment)

Question 3

3 ways individuals and enviroment interact

Answer 3

1. Different people choose different enviroment
2. Our personalities shape how we interpret and react to enviromeny- something with anxiety reacts worse
3. Our personalities help create situation to which we reacts
   - the way we treat others, if we treat friends bad , it causes a situation

Question 4

Biopsychosocial approach to personality

Answer 4

Bio- temperment, Frontal lobe
Psych- unconsciosss thoughts, learned response
Social-cultural- expectations, support, childhood

Question 5

Social psychologists observe behavior

Answer 5

in realistic situations

Question 6

criticiss of social cognitive perspective

Answer 6

• focus too much on situations and fails to look at inner traits
• unconsciouss motives, emotions and inner traits matter.

Question 7

Self

Answer 7

• center of personality
  -organizer of thoughts, feeling etc

Question 8

Success requires

Answer 8

enough optimism to provide hope but enough pessism to prevent complaceny

Question 9

People are most over-confident when incompetent

Answer 9

people who lack knowledge in a skill tent to overestimate their abilities
ex- average singer who think shes amazing goes on the x factor and is humbled terribly because she thought she was all that