SOCIAL:THE SOCIAL SELF

Question 1

interpersonal

Answer 1

explaining and researching what goes on between individuals

Question 2

intrapersonal

Answer 2

exploring and researching what goes on within the individual

Question 3

intragroup

Answer 3

what does on within a group

Question 4

intergourp

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what goes on between groups

Question 5

self-constructruals

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• person’s views and knowledge of themselves
• shaped through an active process that plays out in interaction with the social environment
• motivated by how one would like to see oneself

Question 6

The ‘I’

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the aspect of the self that Is doing the thinking, feeling and knowing
-self awareness

Question 7

self awareness

Answer 7

the act of thinking about ourselves

Question 8

The ‘Me’

Answer 8

the being, our beliefs and feelings about ourselves

-self-concept

Question 9

The ‘Me’ and ‘We’

individual self

Answer 9

personal traits that differentiate the self from others

Question 10

The ‘Me’ and ‘We’

relational self

Answer 10

connections and role relationships with significant others

Question 11

The ‘Me’ and ‘We’

collective self

Answer 11

group memberships that differentiate use from them

Question 12

the ABCs of the ‘Self’

A= Affect

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we have feelings towards ourselves -self esteem

Question 13

the ABCs of the ‘Self’

B= Behaviour

Answer 13

we behave and out behaviour says something about who we are

Question 14

the ABCs of the ‘Self’

C=Cognitions

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we have ideas about who we are-self-concept

Question 15

self concept

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what you know and believe about yourself -made up of self schemas

Question 16

self esteem

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what you feel about the knowledge of yourself

Question 17

self schemas

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elements, beliefs that guide processing of self-relevant information and our behaviour
-actual self-ought self and the ideal self

Question 18

social cognition

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social role of mental processes and how people make sense of themselves and others around them

Question 19

attribution

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perceiving the causes of behaviour- judgements about the courses of our own and other’s behaviour and outcomes

Question 20

fundamental attribution error

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underestimate the impact of the situation and overestimate the role of personal factors when explaining other people’s behaviours

Question 21

actor-observer bias

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the tendency to make situational attribution to explain out own behaviour and personal attributions to the explain the behaviour of others

Question 22

self serving bias

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personal attribution for own success and situational attribution for own failures

Question 23

ultimate attribution error

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self serving bias at group level

Question 24

Independent view of the self

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a way of defining oneself in terms of one’s own internal thoughts, feelings and actions and not in terms of other people’s.

Question 25

Interdependent view of the self

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a way of defining oneself in terms of one’s relationship to other people, recognising that ones’ behaviour is often determined by the thoughts, feelings and actions of others

Question 26

Introspection

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the process whereby people look inward and examine their won thoughts, feelings and motives

Question 27

Self-awareness theory

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when we become self-conscious we become objective observers of our own behaviour -compare present behaviour to internal standards and values

Question 28

self perception theory

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when our attitudes or feelings are ambiguous, we infer them by observing our own behaviour

Question 29

upward social comparison

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comping ourselves to people who’re better than we are on a particular trait or ability

Question 30

downward social comparison

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comparing ourselves to people who are worse than we are on a particular trait or ability

Question 31

the looking glass self

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we see ourselves and the social worlds through the eyes of other people and often adopt those views:

• how you appear to others
• how others will judge you
• you have an emotional response (pride or shame)

Question 32

reflected appraisals principle

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we incorporate the views other have of us into our own self-concept

Question 33

self-discrepancy theory

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distinguishes among representations of our actual self, our ideal self and our ought self

Question 34

social identity

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derived from the knowledge of belonging to a particular group or groups

Question 35

personal identity

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derived from personality, idiosyncratic characteristics and interpersonal relationships

Question 36

Motivational Functions of the Self

self assessment: know thy self

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striving to reach accurate and objective understanding of the self
-perform tests that provide us with maximum amount of objective information

Question 37

Motivational Functions of the Self

self-enhancement: bigger, better, faster, stronger

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desire to enhance the positivity of out self-conceptions

-protect the self from negative information

Question 38

Motivational Functions of the Self

self-verification

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motivation to affirm firmly held self-beliefs

-from a desire for stable and coherent self-views

Question 39

self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 39

when peoples erroneous expectations lead them to act towards other in a way that brings about the expected behaviours, confirming the initial impressions