identities and impressions-2 Flashcards

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identity display

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reflections about the fundamentals of who we are

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impression or image management

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Nonverbal cues that are purposely used/manipulated to reflect (or pretend to have) particular personal characteristics

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Impression formation or person perception

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the process others engage in to try to figure out who we are and what we mean by our actions

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What can identities be made up of

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-culture of a person
-common identifications with a collective or social category
-the creation of a common culture among participants in a movement
-meanings that people attach to the multiple roles they play in highly differentiated contemporary societies

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Working self-concept

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reflects how people think of themselves at a given moment
-is based on personal experiences as well as feedback and responses from others

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Self-schema

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an integrated set of memories, beliefs, and generalizations about the self

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Social comprasion theory

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the idea that individuals determine their own social and personal worth based on how they stack up against others

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Downward comparisons

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comparing oneself to another person who is less competent or in a worse situation

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Upward comparisons

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comparing oneself to another person who is more competent or in a better situation

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What are the 3 aspects of self-concept

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-Real self-who you actually are
-Ideal self-the person that you would like to be
-Congruence-when our thoughts about our real self and ideal self are very similar

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Conditions of worth

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-if parents affection for a child is conditional on the child acting in an acceptable way, the child’s personality develops based on what will get approval from others

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Unconditional positive regard

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when parents affection for a child is unconditional the child’s personality can develop freely

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Explain the social cognitive approach

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-Cognitive factors=beliefs/values
Personal factors=biological components
-Environmental factors respond to use based on our cognitive personal factors and our behaviors
-Reciprocal determinism-cognitive processes, behavior, and context all interact

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Rotters locus of control-3 factors list

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-locus of control
-internal locus of control
-external locus of control

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Locus of control

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our belief about the power we have over our lives

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Internal locus of control

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belief that most of our outcomes are the direct result of our efforts

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External locus of control

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belief that most of our outcomes are outside of our control

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Trait theory

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analyzing personality by examining stable and enduring components

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Traits

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characteristic ways of behaving
Traits usually exist on a continuum

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What are the factors in the 5 factor model of personality

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neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeability, and conscientiousness

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explain eysencks biological trait theory

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-Temperament-inborn, genetically based personality differences
Personality traits have 2 major dimensions
—-How outgoing people are
—– Whether peoples emotions tend to be stable or unstable
-High extroversion = sociable and outgoing, and readily connect with others
-High introversion = need to be alone, engage in solitary behaviors, limit their interactions with others
-High neuroticism = anxious, have an overactive sympathetic nervous system, enter fight or flight reactions even with low stress
-High stability = need more stimulation or stress to activate their fight or flight reaction, more emotionally stable

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self reports

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-a type of personality tests
-personality tests that use questionnaires to let people respond to items that reveal traits and behaviors

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Electronically activated records

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-a type of personality test
-people wear a device that unobtrusively tracks their real world moment to moment interactions, picking up snippets of conversations and other auditory information

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Communication reticence

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the unwillingness to communicate

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Touch avoidant
peoples orientations toward touch, conversation distance, and other communicative behaviors reflect the kind of personal boundaries that they have
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Markers
-a type of identity displays -cues that help reflect particular identities by marking or indicating a particular group that we are in a characteristic that we have -----Usually physical or are learned through socialization processes
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List some national culture identifiers
--Primarily physical appearance and vocal cues --Nonverbal accent: variations in facial expressions and body movements that reflects our cultural membership and can be recognized as such --Emblems = specific meanings given to them by a larger culture --Illustrators = cultural specificity and reflect our cultural background --Directness of body orientation and facial expressions --Vocalics
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Expressivity demand theory
-a sex and gender identifier -the combination of gender, relationship, and situational features call forth different levels of expressivity
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impression management
-enacting nonverbal cues that reflect characteristics that we have or would like others to believe we have -Identity displays are related to specific attributes and being purposeful or strategic
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List the principles of impression management
We manage multiple images Impression management is concerned with cause and effect relationships Impression management techniques are typically directed toward a generalized audience Impression management focuses on the single encoder who is enacting impression management strategies
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Impression management theory
People work to engender positive views of themselves while avoiding negative views
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defensive impression management
when people experience or anticipate a predicament in which they believe others will attribute negative qualities to them
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Assertive impression management
people attempt to establish particular attributes in the eyes of others
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Strategic impression management
have long term goals and consequences
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Tactical impression management
short term goals and consequences
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schema
databases of stored, related information that we use to interpret new experiences
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selective attention
attending to relevant info and ignoring irrelevant information -Influenced by our current goals, expectations, needs, etc
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What 2 things are used in impression formation
schema and selective attention
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Heuristics
mental shortcuts that can facilitate problem-solving and probability judgments
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Availability heuristics
things that are more easily remembered are judged as being more probable
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representativeness heuristic
basing the estimated probability of an event based on how similar it is to the typical prototype of the event
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serial positioning effect
-psychological tendency to remember information that is at the beginning or end of a series/interaction, but difficulty with remembering information presented in the middle
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primacy effect
tendency to remember the things that are presented first
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recency effect
tendency to remember the things that are presented last
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confirmation bias
the tendency to process info by looking for or interpreting info that is consistent with their existing belief
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self-fulfilling prophecies
people’s tendency to behave in ways that confirm their own expectations or other people’s expectations
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expectancy violation theory
violations of expectations will lead to positive or negative responses depending on our perception of the person (the violator) and their behavior(the violation) ----Expectancy-pattern of anticipated behavior