Chapter 3: Social Cognition

Question 1

the term used to describe the way we think about other:

Answer 1

Social cognition

Question 2

3 areas of social cognition:

Answer 2

People(individual), social relationships, and social institutions.

Question 3

People(individual):

Answer 3

Mentalizing: ability to understand someone else’s mental state (kind of like empathy. what is the other person feeling)
Example:If you call someone a name, how will they feel?

Question 4

Social relationships:

Answer 4

• Prosocial Behavior(good social behaviors): ways you would show respect for others. It’s the behavior that shows the respect.
• Peer Exclusion: I did not invite/welcome. Who’s going to sit with me at the lunch table, be with me on the bus, come to my party, etc. teens have no problems excluding others.

Question 5

Social Institutions ( the group on society):

Answer 5

With which social groups one identifies

Example:how you feel about certain groups. cool not cool friends not friends, etc.

Question 6

Imaginary audience:

Answer 6

1) exaggerated feelings of self-consciousness
Example: teen drops a lunch tray in the cafeteria and is overly embarrassed.
2) intense need for privacy
Example: privacy from parents

Question 7

a belief in one’s 1) uniqueness, 2) omnipotence (all knowing), and 3) invulnerability (to taking risks).

Answer 7

Personal fable

Question 8

adolescents fail to see the obvious, not because it is too hard, but because they make a simple task more complicated than it is:

Answer 8

Pseudostupidity.