Sjok 2 Social psykologi

Question 1

Vilka delar finns i det reflexiva jaget?

Answer 1

The social actor

The motivated agent

The autobiografical author

Question 2

what is self as a social actor?

Answer 2

The social actor developes at around 18 months and is the sense of self in physical space that interacts with the world. its the view of ourselves as a collections of roles and traits that we interact with other through

Question 3

What is the self as a motivated agent?

Answer 3

the self as a motivated agent starts developing at around 4 years with the theory of mind and is the self as an intentional force that strives to achieve goals and values
(internal motivation kinda)

Question 4

What is the self as a autobiografical author?

Answer 4

From early adulthood a third perspective emerges that through selective reconstruction of the past atempts to provied temporal continutiy for the self. a story if you will about how I became me and how i will become future me.

Question 5

What is Self-efficacy?

Answer 5

Your own belifes about your ability to effectivily preform to attain a goal

Question 6

In what way is self efficacy measured?

Answer 6

self reporting measures are used, like questionairs / survayes

Question 7

We measure two different types of self-efficacy. what are they and what way is better?

Answer 7

We divide it into general self-efficacy that can apply to any situation and task-specific self-efficacy that is bound to a specific goal/task. Task-specific is better att predicting behaviour

Question 8

What affects self-efficacy?

Answer 8

Performance experience
Vicarious preformance
Verbal persuasion
Imaginal performance
Affective states @ physical sensation

Question 9

how does self-efficacy affect results?

Answer 9

High self-efficacy is related to higher results. one major reason is that people with higher self-efficacy experience higher control of the situation and therefore have better self-regulation.
(its easy to study if you “know” it will pay of and work)

Question 10

What is group efficacy?

Answer 10

Like self-efficacy groups also benifit from a shared belife that they can succsed

Question 11

What is Social cognition?

Answer 11

how people think about the social world

Question 12

What is a schema and why do we use them?

Answer 12

A mental schematic, could be of anything but an example could be person schemas for individuals, self schemas for ourselves or event schemas or scripts for recurring events. We use them to ease the cognitive workload needed.

Question 13

What is an Heuristic

Answer 13

mental shortcut or “Rule of thumb” we can follow to make quick decisions and ease cognitive workload

Question 14

Name two heuristics and what they how they are used

Answer 14

Representativeness heuristics - Objects belong to a group if they are similar to that groups average

Availability heuristic - the odds of something happening is based on how easy it comes to mind

Question 15

What is “thin-slice judgements” ?

Answer 15

A quick predictions about others with little data that is supprisingly accurate

Question 16

What is the “planning fallacy” ?

Answer 16

A cognative bias that underestimates the amount of time a task will take to compleat

Question 17

What is affective forcasting and what bias do we hold?

Answer 17

Predictions about how we will feel in the future.

we have 2 bias:
Impact bias, overestimate the strength of emotions.

Durability bias. we overestimate the durations the emotions will affect us (stronger for negative emotions)

Question 18

What is hot cognition?

Answer 18

When our cognition is affected by emotions

Question 19

What is an directional goal and what type of hot cognitions is commonly associated with them?

Answer 19

A directional goal is where you are motivated to find a particular outcome and its closely associated with motivated scepticism where we are sceptical to evidence against our directional goal

Question 20

What is need for closure and in what scenario would be usually encounter it?

Answer 20

the desier to resolve ambiguity. its offten encountered when there is a time constraint and the need for closure is stronger.

Question 21

What is an example of a pro social automatic processe

Answer 21

The chameleon effect where we mimic the posture, manners and behaviours of our interactions partners

Question 22

What is an Attitude?

Answer 22

psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favor or disfavor

Question 23

What is a stereotype?

Answer 23

our general beliefs of traits and behaviours about a group of people

Question 24

What is the difference between explicit and implicit attitudes and how are they measured

Answer 24

Explicit attitudes are known to the holder and are measured through surveys. implicit attitudes are unknown to the holder and can be measured by implicit measures of attitudes that look att difference in reactions speed to potentialy reveal unknown biases.