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Self & Identity Flashcards

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what is self concept?

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a set of beliefs we have about ourselves

  • traits
  • attitudes
  • wishes , aspirations
  • social identity
  • social role
  • evaluations of self
  • emotional states
  • physical features
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Where does self concept come from?

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  • intrapersonal factors
  • feedback & reaction from others
  • social comparison
  • social group membership
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What is introspection?

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self becomes a target of our perceptions, distinction between I and ME

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What is self perception?

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learn about ourselves by learning our own behaviour, usually in ambiguous or uncertain situations

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What is attribution?

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what made me this way?
dispositional - i helped because i am generous
contextual - i helped because i was the nearest person

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What is self enhancement?

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tendency to achieve a high self esteem

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What is self serving attribution bias?

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take credit for success but refuse responsibility for failures

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What is the main process of attribution and how we see ourselves?

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influence, comparison and identification

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Influence - feedback from others

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  • direct influence
  • socialisation
  • what important people in our life tell us
  • activities we do
  • subtle influence
  • how people react to what we say, how we look
  • glass self and symbolic interactionism
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Social Comparison

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  • we compare our qualities, perception, attitudes with others with same dimension
  • usually when there is no standards
  • style, being cool etc
  • choose similar others
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Social Identity

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  • personal - i or me
  • social - we or us
  • a unique individual vs our self that is shared with others
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Categorisation

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giving the social world different social categories that meaningfully capture our shared relationship to that structure

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Identification

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the process which we define ourselves as a member of a group, combine categories with values and beliefs

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Social comparison

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categories form with comparison with others in our social context

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Social differentiation

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differentiate ourselves to other groups, which is seen as a ‘positive social identity’

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What are the consequences of social identification?

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  • shift from individual to group behaviour

- group level psychology and behaviour as qualitatively distinct

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Personality identity

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people will be perceived and will interact in terms of their individuality and social interaction will be inter-personal

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Social identity

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people will be perceived as group members and social groups will be intergroup

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Self Categorisation Theory

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  • SIT is not SCT
  • SIT is a theory of intergroup conflict
  • SCT- generic theory based on group behaviour
  • both fall within ‘social identity approach’
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SCT provides…..

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  • definition of social cognitive processes of group behaviour
  • analysis that develops from SIT
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SCT also provides…..

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a theoretical framework for understanding -how groups function
-how group processes are affected by and tied to intergroup conflict

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SCT is…..

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  • how people influence how i self categorise myself

- how i categorize myself may influence how i relate to the social context.

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A process model of self

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  • what we are, the way we think and the way we behave
  • product of position within specific framework of social relations
  • these can remain static
  • these can change and when they do -
  • so does the nature of the category that defines the self
  • therefore what can and does become normative for the social group to which the categorisation refers
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What can SIT and SCT help us understand and explain?

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Health -

  • health related behaviour shaped by the information we receive from others - crucial to understand when and why this information is taken or not at face value.
  • whether or not we give useful social support to others depends on the identity based relationships between those who give support and those who receive it.
  • mental health prevention
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What can SIT and SCT help us understand and explain?

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crowd management-

  • riots
  • development of dialogue police
26
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What can SIT and SCT help us understand and explain?

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education -

  • the 5 I’s of social identity in education
  • identification
  • ideation
  • interaction
  • influence
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Why was the social identity theory developed?

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A post war dominance of American Psychology and as such there was a need for a European approach to social problems.

  • to understand the nature of intergroup conflict it was necessary to recognise:
  • a qualitative distinction between group and individual level of psychology
  • ‘social’ or intergroup context played a critical role in psychological processes
  • socially determined in human agency

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