Self Awareness and Self Regulation (oct.7) Flashcards

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What is self-awareness?

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

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What are sources of self awareness?

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  • 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)
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What are the effects of self awareness?

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

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What is self evaluation?

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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
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How does one regulate their behavior?

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

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Social Standards Experiment (bell)

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  • 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
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Social Standards Experiment (candy)

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  • 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
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Personal Standards Experiment

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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)
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Activated Standards Experiment

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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
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Standards from relational schemas experiment

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  • 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
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Escaping Self-Awareness Experiment

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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
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