Early Years Flashcards
What is the ‘looking glass self’?
G.H Mead - the self is derived from seeing ourselves as others see us
What are upward and downward comparisons and who came up with it?
Medvec et al (1995)
Bronze medalists are happier than silver medalists because they look down and are happy that they got a medal, whereas silver medallists look up and are sad they missed out on gold
What are the public and private self? Who was it?
Private self = trying to match behaviour with internal standards
Public self = presenting yourself in a positive light
Carver and Scheier (1972)
What are the 3 parts of the Self Discrepancy Theory and who came up with it?
Higgins (1987)
Actual self = how you perceive yourself
Ideal self = what you want for your future self
Ought self = the person you feel obliged to be
What happens when there is gaps between the actual and ideal self?
What happens when there is gaps between the actual and ought self?
Actual / ideal = dejection and depression
Actual / ought = agitation / anxiety
What is the definition of social psychology?
“the scientific attempt to explain how the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of individuals are influenced by the actual, or imagined presence of other human-beings”
What are social cognitions?
“Cognitive processes and structures that influence and are influenced by social behaviour”
What are the main points of Asch’s Configural Model?
Central traits = most important and have a disproportionate influence on impression making
Peripheral traits = insignificant with little influence
How do primacy and recency affect impression formation?
Primacy = traits presented first disproportionately influence the final impression
Recency = also influence but mainly happen if you are distracted
What are Implicit Personality Theories?
Certain characteristics go together to form a specific type of personality
(physically attractive people should be listened to, athletes in adverts should be trusted)
What are schemas and why are they helpful?
Cognitive structures that represent knowledge about a concept of stimulus (Fiske & Taylor 1991)
allow us to quickly make sense / make a decision
What are heuristics?
Cognitive shortcuts
What are attributions?
How people explain their own and others’ behaviour
What is the Theory of Naive Psychology? (Heider, 1958)
- theory of attributions
- dispositional attribution = the persons personality causes their behaviour
- situational attribution = their environment causes their behaviour
What is the Covariation Model? (Kelley, 1967)
- theory of attribution
- consistency - is it every time?
- distinctiveness - is it in every situation?
- consensus - is it just you?
What is attributional theory? (Weiner, 1979, 1985)
Success or failure on a task leads us to make an attribution based on:
- stability
- locus of causality
- controllability
What is Fundamental Attribution Error?
over emphasis of personal (internal) factors and under estimation of situational (external) factors
What is adaptation (schemas)?
Relates to changing schemas to accommodate for new knowledge
What is assimilation (schemas)?
new knowledge is similar to old knowledge so is able to be fit into schemas easily
What is accommodation (schemas)?
new knowledge doesn’t easily fit into existing schemas
What are the sub-stages of the Sensori-motor stage of development?
- reflexive schemes
- primary circular reactions
- secondary circular reactions
- coordination of secondary schemes (object permanence)
- tertiary circular reactions
- beginning of thought
What are the 2 substages of the pre-operational stage of development and some of their characteristics?
- symbolic function substage - egocentrism, animism
- intuitive thought substage - transitive inferences, conservation tasks
What is Zone of Proximal Development and who came up with it?
Vygotsky
Distance between actual development and the potential development under adult supervision
What did Bruner do?
- Introduced the role of scaffolding and child-centred learning
How was Case’s Neo-piagetian theory different to Piaget’s original theory?
Adopted an informational processing perspective to cognitive development
- changes in each stage happen due to increases in central processing and working mem. cap.
What is Siegler’s Overlapping Waves Theory?
When attempting to solve tasks, children generate a variety of strategies.
What is the actor-observer effect?
- we attribute our own and others behaviour differently
- we view our own behaviour externally, but view others internally
What did Maccoby (1980) say were 4 signs of infant attachment?
- proximity to caregiver
- distress on seperation
- happy on reunion
- orient actions to caregiver
What were the cross-cultural findings about attachment from Fox (1977)? What do they suggest?
- found 1-2 year olds strongly attached to both their mother and nursery caregiver, who were both able to provide and safe base
- suggests quality of attachment over quantity of time spent together
What describes Type A children?
- insecure avoidant
- independent
What describes Type B children?
- secure
- use mother as secure base to build confidence to explore on their own