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The tendency to see other people’s behaviour as dispositionaly caused while focussing more on the role of situational factors when explaining ones own behaviour
Actor or observer difference
Explanations for one success that credit internal dispositional factors and explanations for ones failures that blame external situational factors
Self-serving attributions
Explanations for behaviour that avoid feeling of vulrnability and morality
Defensive attributions
A form of defence of attribution where in people assume that bad things happen to bad people and that good things happen to good people
Believe in a just world / Unrealistic Optomisum
The contents of the self that is our knowledge about who we are
Self-concept
The act of thinking about ourselves
Self awareness
An organized body of knowledge about the self (example: attitudes, preference, traits) that influence what people notice, think about, and remember about themselves
Self schemas
The tendency for people to remember information better if they related to themselves
Self reference effect
Defining one’s self in terms of one’s own internal thoughts feelings and actions and not in terms of the thoughts feelings and actions of other people
Independent view of the self
Defining oneself in terms of one’s relationship to other people recognizing that one’s behaviour is often determined by the thoughts feelings and actions of others
Interdependent of the self
The process whereby people look in word and examine their own thoughts feelings and motives
Introspection
The idea that when people focussed attention on themselves, they evaluate and compare the behaviour with their internal standards and values
Self-awareness theory
Theories about the cause of one’s own feelings and behaviours typically we learned such theories from our culture example absence makes the heart grow fonder
Causal theories
The theory that when our attitudes and feelings are uncertain or ambiguous we infer these states by observing our behaviour in this situation in which it occurs
Self perception theory
The desire to engage in an activity because we enjoy it or find it interesting not because of external rewards or pressure
Intrinsic motivation
The desire to engage in an activity because of external rewards or pressures not because we enjoy the task or find it interesting
Extrinsic motivation
The case whereby people view your behaviours as caused by compelling extrinsic reasons making them under estimate the extent to which their behaviour was caused by intrinsic reasons
Over justification affect
Rewards that are given for performing a task regardless of how well the task is done
Task contingent rewards
Rewards that are based on how well they perform a task
Performance contingent rewards
The idea that we see ourselves through the eyes of other people and incorporate their views into our self-concept
Looking glass self
The idea that we learn about our own abilities and attitudes by comparing ourselves with other people
Social comparison theory theory
The process whereby we compare selves with people who are worse than we are in a particular trait or ability
Downward social comparison
The process whereby we compare selves with people who are better than we are in a particular trait or ability
Upward social comparison
The theory that we become distressed when our sense of who we are actual song is this discrepant from our personal standards or desired self conceptions
Self discrepancy theory
And realistically positive view of One self
Self enhancement
Siri suggesting that people have a need to seek confirmation of their self-concept whether the self-concept is positive or negative in some circumstances this tendency in conflict with the desire to uphold a favourable view of oneself
Self verification theory
