Self Contrual Processes (sept.28)

Question 1

Self Perception of Attitudes Experiment

Answer 1

• participants given a checklist of environmentalist behavior with different wording (linguistic manipulation
• asked to rate their environmental identity 1-15
• ex i occasionaly litter vs i often litter

Question 2

Self Perception of Attitudes Experiment Results

Answer 2

• pro ecology linguistic manipulation = high self rating
• anti ecology linguistic maniputation = low self rating
• only showed an effect on people who didn’t already consider environmentalist as a part of their identity

Question 3

Two factor theory of emotion

Answer 3

physiological arounsal x cognitive label = emotion

Question 4

schachter and singer self perception of emtion experiment

Answer 4

• gave people epinephrine to create physiological reaction
• some informed it would happen, other not
• all put in a room with the euphoric guy
• people who knew about the epinepherine felt the least euphoric
• people who didn’t felt the most

Question 5

self perception of love and attraction experiment

Answer 5

• high bridge = arousal, low bridge = control
• talk to female or male confederate and given number
• more men called on after the high bridge with female

Question 6

self perception of love and attraction experiment bias

Answer 6

• people self select to go on the high bridge
• repeated with high bridge only, except talked to right after crossing or 10 minutes after
• more men from immediate convo called than from delayed convo

Question 7

self perception of love and attraction conclusion

Answer 7

the participants constue their physiological arousal to be love or attraction

Question 8

Our sense of self is to a large extent maintained and experienced _____.

Answer 8

SOCIALLY

Question 9

What are the three components of social construction?

Answer 9

(a) intersubjectivity
(b) symbolic interactionism
(c) self-presentation

Question 10

What is intersubjectivity?

Answer 10

sharing a sense of what is going on with others

• co-ordination or conflict
• interactions with others helps develop our sense of self
• ex chimps who lived with others showed more self awareness in the mirror test

Question 11

What is symbolic interactionism?

Answer 11

• wedding ring, smile, handshake, clothing
• symbols that have agreed upon shared meanings
• viewpoints of others
• —-significant other
• —-reference group (other women, other piano players, etc.)

Question 12

What is self-presentation?

Answer 12

we attempt to control others’ impressions of us