Self Awareness and Self Regulation (oct.7)

Question 1

What is self-awareness?

Answer 1

the degree to which a person is paying attention to their own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

Question 2

What are sources of self awareness?

Answer 2

• social disruptions (embarrassment)
• salience of self (altering physical appearence, thinking you stand out)
• personality variable (some peopoe just think about themself more)
• self-focusing stimuli (mirror)

Question 3

What are the effects of self awareness?

Answer 3

(1) self evaluation
(2) behavioral regulation
(3) escaping self awareness)

Question 4

What is self evaluation?

Answer 4

comparing yourself to standards

• are you meeting them? no? -> negative effect
• ex rating carpet samples and watching themself, cowboys, or nothing
• self esteem went down when watching themself

Question 5

How does one regulate their behavior?

Answer 5

(a) social standards
(b) personal standards
(c) activated standards)
(d) standards from relational schemas

Question 6

Social Standards Experiment (bell)

Answer 6

• participants given an anagram test
• opporunity to cheat by stopping after they heard the bell
• without a mirror 71% cheated
• with a mirror 7% cheated

Question 7

Social Standards Experiment (candy)

Answer 7

• children sent into room with candy
• no mirror they take 4.5
• mirror they take 2.2
• instructed only to take 1
• no mirror 2.4
• mirror 1.2

Question 8

Personal Standards Experiment

Answer 8

Gibbons premeasure of sex guilt

• premeasure with questionaire about sexuality comfortability
• had them read erotic literature and rate it
• with mirror there was a large correlation between ratings and premeasure score (0.74)
• without mirror there was a small correlation between ratings and premeasure score (0.2)

Question 9

Activated Standards Experiment

Answer 9

Vallacher and Solocky

• draw a single line drawing
• told luck would help the test or that it was a measure of intelligence (primed)
• self scoring allowed people to cheat
• without a mirror, about 50% cheated for both groups
• with a mirror, no luck participants cheated, but almost all ability participants cheated
• ability participants had a desire to confirm their self esteem and prove their ability, making social standard of not cheating unimportant

Question 10

Standards from relational schemas experiment

Answer 10

• undergraduate women visualize parents or friends
• asked to read sexy story and rate it
• no mirror = no different between primes
• mirror = friend prime rate it higher, parent prime rate it lower

Question 11

Escaping Self-Awareness Experiment

Answer 11

Dural and Wicklund

• gave participants success or failure feedback
• wait in room with and without mirror
• everybody waited 8 min except people in mirror room with failure feedback who left after 5 to escape the negative feelings coming from their self awareness and evaluation