Self And Social Cognition Flashcards
What is self esteem?
Self esteem is a multi domain approach with many identities and several competencies.
What are cognitive constructs?
Individual: how we think about ourselves.
Collective view: how we would like others to see us.
What are domains of competence?
Domains of competence: (feeling worthy to improve self esteem).
It changes with age children and young teen have school work and social acceptance.
When older, has job, relationships and close friendships to consider.
What is the Social Comparison Theory by Festinger?
The social comparison theory states that we drive to evaluate ourselves by comparing ourselves with others. This evaluation validates our beliefs and helps maintain self esteem. (Can cause unrealistic optimism and positive self views).
What did Weinstein say about unrealistic optimism?
Weinstein found that students have unrealistic levels of optimism, expecting positive things to happen to them, but not negative things.
What are the stages in development of self concept?
We have a visual concept of ourselves by age 2. We categorise ourselves by age, gender and appearance.
Older children include internal attributes like feelings and likes.
Adolescents become more abstract and complex.
What is the theory of mind?
Theory of mind is our ability to have ideas about other peoples feelings and beliefs.
Normally acquired at age 4 but is absent in autistic people who cannot comprehend the feelings of others.
What are the determinants of liking?
We base liking of physical attractiveness (the halo effect), proximity, similarity and familiarity.
How do we process stereotyping?
Identify a category or group, assign features to people in that group, generalise features to all people in that group and assimilate ideas and information. (Top down processing example).
