The Social Self (3) key terms Flashcards

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Affective forecasting

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When people try to predict how they’re gonna feel about a situation in the future. Belongs to Introspection

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Bask in reflecte glory (BIRG)

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When people identify themselves with a succesful group of people, like a winning sports team, to feel better about themselves and improve their self-esteem

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Dialicticism

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This means that you’re able to accept that contradicting characteristics can coexist in the same person. This often occurs in eastern cultures

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Downward social comparisson

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When you compare yourself to a person who’s less successful than you, when you yourself have failed, to uphold your self-esteem

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Facial feedback hypothesis

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This is the idea that different facial expressions trigger you to feel an emotion associated with that facial expression (James Laird) . It is part of the social perception theory

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Implicit egotism

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This is when people unconsciously show signs of self-esteem

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Overjustification effect

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This shows that when people are rewarded for an activity they were intrinsically motivated for, they will lose intrinsic motivation for that activity

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Private self-consciousness

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When a person is more likely to introspect about their feelings

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Public self-consciousness

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When a person in more likely to pay attention to their public image

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Self-awareness theory

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This theory states that when people are forced to focus on themselves, they mainly see their discrepancies, which they then want to reduce by escaping their awareness or change their behavior (Robert Wicklund et al.)

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Self-concept

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The sum total of beliefs a person has about themselve

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Self-esteem

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A person’s positive or negative evaluations of themselves

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Self-handicapping

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This describes he tendency for people to purposefully set themselves up for failure, so that when they fail, they have an excuse for it and can uphold their self-esteem

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Self-monitoring

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This describes the tendency for people to adapt their behavior to fit social settings (Mark Snyder). You can either be high or low in self-monitoring

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Self-perception theory

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This states that people observe and interpret their own behavior when their internal states don’t provide an explanation for that behavior (Daryl Berm)

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Self-presentation

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This refers to the way people present themselves to influence the way they and others see them

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Self-regulation

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This is when people control or change their urges and behaviors to fit in the idea of what is socially acceptable

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Self-schemas

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These are beliefs people hold about certian things (Hazel Markus). Together they make up the sef-concept

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Social comparison theory

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This states that when people are uncertain about their abilities, opinions or emotions they compare themselves to others to find the answer (Leon Festinger)

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Terror management theory

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This states that people have a constant fear of death, and to cope with that they construct worldviews that improve their self-esteem (Greenberg, Solomon, Pyszczynski)

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Two factor theory of emotion

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This states that t feel emotion, two factor are necessary: physiological arousal and a cognitive interpretation of that arousal (Schachter & Singer). This is strongly linked with social comparisson theory