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Week 4 - Social Cognition Flashcards

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What is social cognition?

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Encompasses all processes of perception, belief, interp., and memory that we use to understand…

1) ourselves
2) other people

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“____mili seconds” is the time needed to make an emotional judgment on someone’s face

“___” tenth of a second we have already made a judgement on whether we find them attractive or we like them

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What is the “danger” of first impressions?

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May be wrong or inaccurate

BUT they can be influential and enduring

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Do we hold stereotypic first impressions?

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Yes

Assumptions about males and females

^^ regarding attractiveness and likeability

Differ on perceiver

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True or false. Men who have higher facial width to height are typically more prejudiced

Women who desire“______- ______” relationships prefer men with this higher facial width to height ratio

“______ ______” is seen as more desirable in leaders (politics)

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True

We also tend to like and trust men more with narrow faces

Short-term

Wide mouth

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Try to form an image an impression of someone who is…

  1. Envious, stubborn, critical, impulsive, industrious, intelligent

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  1. Intelligent, industrious, impulsive, critical, stubborn, envious
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Same thing (describing using the same words)

The order MATTERS, primacy effect where we judge on the first few words

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In one experiment participants were judging a 4th grade girl on her test-talking abilities and some were told she was rich and some were told she was poor

What were the results?

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Participants assumed she has better scores if she was rich and worse scores if she was poor

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What is confirmation bias?

VS

Overconfident?

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We tend to seek out information that will prove us RIGHT than information that will prove us wrong
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We are often overconfident in our assumptions about others and end up making more MISTAKES than we think

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What is the study about accuracy and over confidence ability relationships?

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At the beginning, they felt they knew more about their partners than they really did

Over time, they thought they were familiar with all the facts, when in truth their ACCURACY did not improve

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What is positive illusion in a relationship?

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We often portray our partner in the BEST possible way

Combo of realistic knowledge and idealized perceptions

NOT necessary ignoring the faults, just reconstructing them in a different way

Tend to be people with a happier relationship

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What’s an approach we can take to stay happy with our partners?

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Constructing GENEROUS perceptions of them

Minimize faults, maximize virtues

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True or false. We idealize our partner more over time and revise our opinions on them

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True

Allows our standards to fit with the partner we chose

If reciprocated, everyone tends to be more satisfied

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What is the attributional process (attributions)?

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The EXPLANATION on why we come up for why the things occur in the ways they do (or why did they not occur)

CAN EMPHASIZE: external(situation/circumstances)/internal(personality/effort) impacts

CAN ATTRIBUTE: stable(abilities)/unstable factors

CAN IDENTIFY: controllable/uncontrollable causes

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What are the 3 patterns that emerge in studies addressing attributions in relationships?

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  1. Actor/observer effect
  2. Self-serving bias
  3. Relationship attributions
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What is the actor-observer effect?

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We often make EXTERNAL attributions for ur OWN behaviour & INTERNAL attributions for the behaviour of OTHERS

Effect gets smaller when we make a conscious effort to understand the others perspectives

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What is self-serving biases?

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Take CREDIT for our successes and AVOID blame for our failures

LOVING partners tend to be LESS self-serving toward each other in comparison with others

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What are relationship attributions? (2 types)

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  1. Relationship- enhancing attributions (happy & secure attach style):

(+) behaviour/action by partner are deemed intentional, habitual and character defining

  1. Distress-maintaining attributions (dissatisfied & insecure attach style):

(-) behaviour/action are viewed as deliberate
(+) ^^^ are viewed as accidental and unintended

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What is reconstructive memory?

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Our memories are continually REVISED and REWRITTEN as we obtain new info

CURRENT feelings affect this (whether happy and unhappy in the moment) might affect recall of the past

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What is romanticism?

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View that LOVE should be the critical element for choosing a partner

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We tend to enter our partnerships bases on “________ ________” that we develop (strong beliefs)

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Martial paradigms

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True or false. Some beliefs can be dysfunctional and as a result may have adverse impacts upon relationship quality

If true, what are some of these beliefs?

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True
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’ - Disagreements are destructive

  • “Mind reading” is essential
  • Partners cannot change
  • Sex should be perfect every time
  • Men & women are different
  • Great relationships just happen
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What is a destiny belief?

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Assume that 2 individuals are either WELL-SUITED for each other and DESTINED to live HAPPILY or NOT

INFLEXIBLE view of intimate relationships

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What are growth beliefs?

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Beliefs that HEALTHY/POSITIVE relationships develop gradually as partner work at addressing CHALLENGES/OBSTACLES

With enough EFFORT, most relationships can succeed

Tend to be adaptive

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What are self-fulfilling prophecies?

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FALSE predictions which end up being TRUE since they lead individuals to act in ways that FUFILL the expectations

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People who have a tendency to worry about rejection often behave in a manner which makes the rejection “______ ______” to occur

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More likely

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What are self-perceptions?

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What are self-concepts?

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Judgements that we form about ourselves
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Encompass our beliefs and feelings about ourselves
(Self-knowledge, self-esteem etc…)

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What are the 2 important functions self-concepts fufill during social interactions?

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  1. Self-enhancement (seek feedback from others, help to feel desirable)
  2. Self-verification (feedback that sustains our current self-concepts)
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What is impression management?

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Trying to impact the impressions that others form of us

Because these impressions are IMPORTANT

We typically try to control the info that others receive about us
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Ex) women tend to eat less when at dinner with an attractive man vs them w/ friends

Ex) men take greater risks during dates, don’t act scared with horror movies, display more expensive goods etc…

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What are the 4 general impression management strategies people use?

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  1. Ingratiation (seeking acceptable and liking from others, give lots of compliments, charming)
  2. Self-promotion (really want to be respectable and liked by others, talk about accomplishments/skills), seen in workplace (may be unladylike)
    ***COMBO OF 1/2 SEEN AS IDEAL IN JOB INTERVIEW
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  3. Intimidation (portrays themselves as dangerous, intimidating, ruthless, in attempt to get others to do what they want)
  4. Supplication (present oneself to be inept or sick to get others to support and help them, pity)
    ***TYPICALLY DON’T RESORT TO 3/4, BUT THE ODD TIME INDIV WILL
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Individuals who score HIGH on the trait of self-monitoring tend to what?

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Adjust their behaviour readily in order to FIT with a variety of norms/different contexts

Tend to have MORE friends, but LESS in common with these friends

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Individuals who score LOW on the trait of self-monitoring tend to what?

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Be LESS attentive to social norms/less flexible

Behave more CONSISTENTLY across situations

Make STABLE impressions

Tend to have LESS friends, but these friends are more SIMILAR to themselves

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What are 6 different factors that determine the accuracy of judgement about our partners?

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  1. Knowledge
  2. Motivation
  3. Partner legibility
  4. Perceiver ability
  5. Threatening perceptions
  6. Perceiver influence
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Factor 1.
Knowledge

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We don’t know our partners as well as we BELIEVE we do

However, we know quite a bit about our intimate partners

Ex) married partners tend to know each other more compared to dating partners

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Factor 2.
Motivation

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Spouses who have been married for DECADES don’t seem to understand one another any more than spouses that have been dating for 1-2 years

INTEREST/MOTIVATION has an impact on our intimacy

Women tend to be better judges than men

Men tend to not try/care as much

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Factor 3.
Partner legibility

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The more OBVIOUS a trait is, the more ACCURATELY it will be perceived

Individuals who are SOCIABLE/EXTRAVERTED are likely to be perceived as ^^^

Neuroticism is harder to identify/detect

Ex) in one study it was much easier to see interest that a man had with extroversion vs a women

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Factor 4.
Perceiver ability

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People with good SOCIAL SKILLS excel at judging others accurately

These individuals often score high on assessments of EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Ex) women tend to have higher emotional intelligence than men

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Factor 5.
Threatening perceptions

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When ACCURATE perceptions are worrisome, intimate partners can be motivated to develop INACCURATE judgements in order to REDUCE feelings of worry and REDUCE doubts regarding their relationship

Ex) parter has anger issues, even tho these perceptions are accurate we might might inaccurate judgments to help reduce our anxiety of this

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Factor 6.
Perceiver influence

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People can sometimes act like SCULPTORS by attempting to CONSTRUCT the partners they would LIKE to have

***PSYCH 347- Interpersonal Relationships (14 decks)

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