Self and social recognition Flashcards

1
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How is self identity a cognitive construct

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INTERNALISED VIEW
>Individual view: How you see yourself
>Collective view: How you think others see you

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2
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What is self-esteem?

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> Self-liking
Self-regard
Self-respect

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3
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What is the multi-domain approach?

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> Many identities
Several competencies
Behave differently depending on situation

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4
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What is linked to low self esteem?

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> Personal/ social problems

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5
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What can low self esteem lead to?

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> Low self efficacy

>Treatment compliance

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6
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What is the cycle of low self esteem

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Low self esteem—> Negative expectations—> Low effort, high anxiety—> failure—> self blame—> low self esteem

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7
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What are domains of competence

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> Perceived competence in domain judged important influences self esteem

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8
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What is The Looking Glass Self conceptualisation?

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> Ourselves as others see us

>Self appraised by others reactions

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9
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Who came up with the social comparison theory?

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> Festinger

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10
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What is the social comparison theory?

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> Drive for self evaluation
Compare our self to others >Use social & relationship info
Selective

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11
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Functions of social comparison theory

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> Validate sown attitudes & behaviours
Self esteem maintenance
Self-serving biases
Downward comparisons

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12
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What is a self serving- bias

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> Unrealistic optimism

>Unrealistic positive self views

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13
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Who came up with unrealistic optimism?

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> Weinstein

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14
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Where is unrealistic optimism less apparent ?

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> Depression

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15
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What does media do

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> Appearance focused

>Encourages downwards & upwards comparisons

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16
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Negatives of social media

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> Sleep
Mental health
Cyber bullying

17
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What is damaging about social media comparisons?

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> frequency

18
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Developing self concept in young children

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>2 years: visual self-concept
>Self- categorise
   >Age
   >Gender
   >Appearance
19
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Developing self concepts in older children

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> Internal attributes
Likes
>Feelings

20
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Developing self concepts in adolescents

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> More subtle
Abstract
Complex

21
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Children concepts of others:

What is perspective talking> what experiment observes it?

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> Understanding someone has another view

>3 mountain problem

22
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Children’s concepts of others: Theory of mind

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> Ideas on own & others beliefs and feelings

>Autism> poor

23
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What is Baron- Cohens definition of autism?

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> Disability in relation to social functioning & adapting to change

24
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When does perceptive and theory of mind occur

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> 3-4 years

>Earlier in girls

25
Q

How do we form impressions of others?

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> Physical appearance
First and last impressions
(Primary & recency effect)
Personality traits

26
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What is stereotyping?

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> Fixed, over-generalised beliefs> groups & classes

>Use personality traits to describe based on appearance

27
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What are the 3 processes of stereotyping?

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> Identify category/ group
Assign features
Generalise features to all in group

28
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Why do we stereotype?

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> Understand large amounts of social info

>Cognitive miser

29
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What leads to discriminating?

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Negative stereotyping–> Prejudice–> Discrimination

30
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What do stereotyping and perception of others have in common?

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> Over- generalisations
Slow to change
Self-fulfilling
Top-down processing

31
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What is the halo effect?

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> What is beautiful is good

>Aggregation of other good qualities

32
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What are the determinants of liking?

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> Physical attractiveness
Proximity
Familiarity
Similarity

33
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What is assortative mating

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> Become more similar