Week 10 Attitudes & social cognition Flashcards
What is Development of Social Cognition: ie: understanding of ourself
How we perceive and how we process information about the social world
What is Attribution?
Attribution is any time we attach meaning to behaviour - our intuitions allow us to do this.
Attempting to understand the behaviour of others by attributing feelings, beliefs and intentions to them
The process of inferring the causes of events or behaviors
What is cognitive biases?
The tendency to think in certain ways that can lead to systematic deviations from a standard of reality and good judgement
What are attitudes?
What are attitudes?
An evaluative sense of positivity or negativity about something
3 channels of influence attitudes have:
- Affect – the aspect of emotion / mood that is feels ‘good or bad’
- Behaviour – a general tendency to approach or avoid the object
- Cognition – the relevant conscious beliefs and judgments
What is Concepts of the Self?
Self Schemas
Self Esteem
Self Consistency
Self Presentation
What are stereotypes?
sweeping generalisations of social groups, which shape our expectations and subsequent social judgements of the members of those groups (be they gender, racial, national, religious, sports, etc.)
What are stereotypes?
sweeping generalisations of social groups, which shape our expectations and subsequent social judgements of the members of those groups (be they gender, racial, national, religious, sports, etc.)
What are self serving biases?
self-serving biases account for our tendency to see the world around us in a manner that disproportionately favours our own interests and supports our self-esteem Broadly speaking, standard human cognition is biased so that we each believe we are a little taller, thinner, smarter, betterlooking, more likable, & more in control of our lives that we are
What is self perception theory?
When internal states (attitudes, emotions) are weak or ambiguous, people infer these states from knowledge about their overt behaviour and the circumstances in which it occurred.
We gain knowledge of ourselves by making self attributions based on previous behaviour
What is balance theory?
- Wanting to agree with people we like
- Disagreeing with people we dislike
- Associating good things with good people
- Associating bad things with bad people
What is self schema
Learned models of self-definition (e.g. student)
What is self esteem?
Our evaluative sense of our own relative value
What is self consistency?
How we interpret personal inconsistencies
What is self presentation?
The performative aspect of our selves, the semi-idealised impression we want to display for others
