Self Flashcards
self-perception theory
uses our own behaviour as a basis for inference
social comparison theory
use others to evaluate our own traits, abilities, personal characteristics
actor-observer differences in attribution
tend to see personality as cause of others’ behaviours. Situation as cause of one’s own
Reasons for actor-observer differences
salience or accessibility
different causal alternatives considered
cite beliefs, goals more for self, causal antecedents for others
self-knowledge
organized in terms of self-aspects, different roles, activities, and relationships
Self-esteem
indicate how i am doing in terms of successes and social acceptance or failures and social rejection
self-enhancing biases
people have a tendency to inflate their abilities and accomplishments (valuing me and mine)
we usually seek out downward comparisons
self-expression
actions publicly demonstrate our self-concept
self-presentation
actions shape others’ impressions of us in positive ways
self-monitoring
a stable individual difference in people’s relative balance between self-expression and self-presentation
low self-monitor
act as they truly see themselves
high self-monitor
act as the situation calls for
self-discrepancy theory
actual-self (perceptions of who we are) ideal self (how we ideally want to be) ought self (how we should be)
regulatory focus theory
people may have a promotion focus (self-regulation is guided primarily by the ideal self)
or they may have a prevention focus in which self-regulation is guided primarily by the ought self.
“depressive attributional style”
explaining negative events as due to one’s own negative, stable and general characteristics
