Midterm 2 Flashcards
The sense of self as an embodied actor whose social performances may be constructed in terms of more or less consistent self-ascribed traits and social roles
The social actor
Freud’s conception of the executive self in personality
Ego
The traits and social roles that others attribute to an actor. Actors also have their own conceptions of what others think of their roles.
Social reputation
A child’s understanding that other people have thoughts and feelings, and how they affect behavior.
Theory of mind
Cognitive and social changes that result in the child’s development a more purposeful, planful, and goal-directed approach to life
The Age 5-to-7 Shift
The extent to which a person feels that they are worthy and good
Self-esteem
One’s definition of the traits and social roles they inhabit as they grow older
Identity
The sense of self as an intentional force that strives to achieve goals, plans, values, projects, and the like
Self as a motivated agent
The self as knower or as the subject who encounters “me”
The “I”
The self as known, as the object or target of the “I”’s work
The “me”
The ability to derive conclusions about the self by reflection
Autobiographical Reasoning
Sense of self as a storyteller who reconstructs the past and imagines the future in order to articulate an integrative narrative that provides life with some reassured purpose
Self as an Autobiographical Author
Evolving story of the self. It reconstructs the past, anticipates the future, and provides unity, meaning, and purpose
Narrative Identity
Life stories that affirm the transformation from suffering to an enhanced status or self
Redemptive narrative
When Wendy describes herself based on her future aspirations she is describing her self as __.
A. A social Actor
B. The “I”
C. An autobiographical author
D. A motivated agent
D. A motivated agent
The sense of self as a motivated agent acts as an intentional force that strives to achieve goals, plans, values, projects, and the like
The study of how people think about their social worth
Social Cognition
Mental model or representation that organizes the important info about a thing, person, or event
schema
A mental shortcut or rule of thumb that reduces complex mental problems to more simple rule-based decisions
Heuristics
The likelihood of an object belonging to a category is evaluated based on the extent to which the object appears similar to one’s mental representation of the category
Representativeness heuristic
The frequency or likelihood of an event is evaluated based on how easily instances of it come to mind
Availability heuristic
Ex. Plane crashes seem like they happen more frequently than they actually do because all plane crashes get reported on.
A cognition bias in which one underestimates how long it will take to complete a task
Planning Fallacy
Predicting how one will feel in the future after some event or decision
Affective forcasting
A bias in affective forecasting in which one overestimates the strength or intensity of the emotion one will experience after some event
Impact Bias
A bias in affective forecasting in which one overestimates for how long one will feel an emotion after some event
Durability bias
