Chapter 2 Flashcards
Define Social Cognition
How we make sense of other people, ourselves, and our social world.
Define Automatic Social Cognition
You arrived at conclusions without much consciousness, intention, or awareness
Define Controlled Social Cognition
You consciously and intentionally stop to think about something because you realize it will affect what happens
Define Memories
Recollections of specific people and events that happened in the past
Define Schema
A memory structure that connects a concept to its related qualities
Define Implicit Personality Theory
A specific kind of schema that connects a set of personality traits and behaviors
Define Judgement
Evaluating people and their behaviors
Define Impression formation
the judgement process of developing an initial concept of another person
Define Attributions
Explanations we think of for why a particular person is behaving a certain way.
Define Self-Concept
A very large schema in memory that is the collection of all the ideas you have about yourself.
Define Self-Schema
The qualities yourself that you see as most ral in defining who you are.
Define Self-Esteem
Depends on how we view the characteristics we think we have.
Define Self-Talk
The message you send to yourself through your thoughts
Define Emotions
Are the positive and negative sensations we experience as a result of perceiving something in our environment that supports or threatens out well-being
Define Motivational Component
The actions our emotion encourages you to take.
Define Self-generated social media cues
are items of information that people post on their profile.
Define System-generated social media cues
are pieces of information that the system provides.
Define Communication
Is the process of acting on information
Define Human communication
Making sense out of the world & sharing that sense with others by creating meaning through verbal and non-verbal messages
Define Interpersonal communication
transactional form of human communication involving mutual influence, usually for the purpose of managing relationships
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occurs when you treat people as objects, or when you respond to their roles rather than to who they are as unique individuals
