lecture 4

Question 1

What gender difference is there in interdependence?

Answer 1

-women are more interdependent than men

Question 2

what type of studies have shown women are more interdependent than men?

Answer 2

• self-descriptions
• representative photos
• attention focus (inner vs. situational)

Question 3

how do we come to know ourselves?

Answer 3

introspection (simply looking inward at who we are)

Question 4

what did “experience sampling study: what are you thinking about” show?

Answer 4

people do not think about themselves as often as you might think

Question 5

how can we become more aware of ourselveS?

Answer 5

situational or person factors

Question 6

self-awareness theory

Answer 6

we become more self-conscious, objective, judgmental observers of ourselves
-comparison of behavior to internal standard

Question 7

what contributes to the “State of self awareness” in the model of self awareness

Answer 7

• cues in the environment

- personality disposition

Question 8

why is it difficult to introspect why we feel a certain way?

Answer 8

we are often unaware of the thought processes going on in our head (automatically)

Question 9

how does one deal with the difficulty of explaining why we feel a certain way

Answer 9

we are able to come up with an explanation (this explanation is usually based on our own causal theories)

Question 10

Study (Swin, Hyer) found that when women were predicting their behavior for a scenario: (for saying something)

Answer 10

they predicted they would say something 95% of the time, but in the actual situation they only said something 44% of the time

Question 11

“the fate of our own relationships study” found that:

Answer 11

participants in new relationships who predicted outcome of relationship in a year were= not significant- or not better than chance
-but roommates/parents had a significant correlation between their predictions and actual outcome

Question 12

how do we predict our future feelings?

Answer 12

affective forecasting

Question 13

problems with affective forecasting?

Answer 13

people have difficulty predicting the duration and intensity of their future emotions

Question 14

what is miswanting?

Answer 14

• wanting is based on what we think we will like

- miswanting occurs when we misjudge the intensity or duration of our liking

Question 15

why do we affectively misforecast?

Answer 15

• immune neglect
• focus problem
• adaptation/hedonic treadmill

Question 16

what is immune neglect?

Answer 16

when we neglect to factor in the fact that we are very good at adapting psychologically to negative events- or we have an “immune” system that works automatically- we don’t take this into our forecast

Question 17

what is a focus problem?

Answer 17

when imagining the effect of a future event, we tend to focus only on that event

• we don’t realize that other events will also affect our well-being later
• confuse “overall feelings” for “feelings about” when forecasting