Self and social cognition

Question 1

What is stereotyping?

Answer 1

Identify different group –> assign features to people in group –> generalise features to ALL people in group, example of TOP DOWN PROCESSING

Question 2

What is domains of competence?

Answer 2

different people have different - e.g. teenagers expected to be more physically attractive etc

Question 3

What is the looking glass self?

Answer 3

Where self grows out from what others see us as and self-appraised by other people’s reactions

Question 4

Who was the social comparison theory discovered by?

Answer 4

FESTINGER

Question 5

What is the social comparison theory?

Answer 5

constant self-evaluation and comparison - to validate own actions and maintain self esteem

Question 6

Who discovered the unrealistic optimism?

Answer 6

Weinstein

Question 7

What happens at 2 years old?

Answer 7

visual self concept, can self-categorise by age, gender and appearance

Question 8

What happens at 4 years of age?

Answer 8

Theory of Mind - can understand own and other’s feelings but ABSENT IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM

Question 9

‘Halo Effect’

Answer 9

what is beautiful is good (the attractive are wealthy, healthy etc)

Question 10

What is a cognitive miser?

Answer 10

only small amounts of info perceived by others when making decisions and generalising, similar to stereotyping