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| Individual views as both the source and the object of reflexive behavior ie. If somebody cuts off, you think "Wow he's an idiot" |
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| Imaginatively occupting the position of anther persona and viewing the self and situation from that person's perspective |
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| Looking-Glass Self (Cooley) |
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| Describes the self-schema we create based of how we think we appear |
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| Depend of the social positions available to us in society |
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| Subset of self-concepts that constitute the self we know in a particular situation |
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| The more salient/imTheportant an identity, the more frequently we express that identity |
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| (1) Family (2) Performance feedback (3)Social comparsion |
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| Tactical Impression Management |
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| Selective use of self-presentation manipulate the impression that others form of him or her (ie. "Acting the part") |
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Front and back regions
(stages) |
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| Attermpts to increace a target person's liking for us |
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(1)Opinion conformity,
(4)other enhancement aKa Flattery
(2) Supplication aKa you are needy and or deserving
(3) SElective self-presentation |
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| Attempts to define questionable conduct as in line with norms |
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| Types of Aligning Actions? |
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(1) Disclaimer ->My case is different
(2) Accounts: excused and justifications |
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| The process by which people make inferences about the cause of behavior or attitudes (Process that an observer uses to infer the causes of another's behavior) |
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| Dispositional Attribution |
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| A decision by an observer to attribute a behavior to the internal state of the person who performed the behavior |
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A decision by an observer to attribute a behavior to environmental forces facing the person who performed the behavior
(ie. Someone cuts you off and go "Well hes probably just having a bad day") |
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| Attributions for success and failure |
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| (1) Ability (2) Effort (3) Task difficulty (4) Luck |
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| Fundamental Attribution Error |
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| Tendency to underestimate the importance if situational influences ad to overestimate personal, dispositional factors as causes of behavior |
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| (1) Persn Schema (2) Self-Schema (3) Group Schema (Stereotypes) (4) Role Schema (5) Event Schema |
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| Observer give more weight to information recieved early in a sequence |
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| The most recent information exerts the strongest influence on our impressions |
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| Tendency to overestimate the casual impact of whomever of whatever we focus our attention on |
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| Actors tend to see their own behavior as due to characteristics of the external situation, whereas observers tend to attribute actors' behavior to the actors' internal, personal characteristics |
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| A predisposition to respond to particular object in a favorable or unfavorable way (object not meaning just things but people) |
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| Components of an Attitude |
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| (1)Cognition or beliefs (2) Evaluation (3) Behavioral predisposition |
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| Theory of cognitive dissonance |
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| Concerns the sources and effects of inconsistency in cognitive systems with two or more elements |
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| 4 Reasons that the relationship is not stranger |
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| (1)Activation of the attitude (2) Characteristic of the attitude (3) Correspondence between attitude and behavior (4) Situational constraints on behavior |
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| The systematic study of nature and causes of human social behavior |
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| What are the four points to social psych? |
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(1) impact that 1 individual has on another
(2)the impact that a group has on an individual
(3)------ an individual has on the group which they belong
(4)---- one group has on another group |
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| Set of interrelated propositions that organizes and explains a set of observed phenomena |
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| Rules specifying how a person should behave ( ie. parents idea of a "perfect child") |
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| social behavior is governed by external events, especially rewards/punishments |
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| Mental activities are important determinants of social behavior. Individuals interpret the meaning of stimili and select action to be made in response (ie. red=stop, green=go) |
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| Symbolic interaction theory |
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| Human nature and social order are products of symbolic communication amoung people (ie. Just go with single man wears wedding rings to get chicks) |
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| An object takes on meaning only in relation to a persons plans |
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| Produces behavior that tends to pass itself on to the next generation |
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| Ways in which individuals learn and recreate skills, knowledge, values, motives and roles appropriate to their positions in grop or society |
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| (1) Family, (2) Peers (3) School |
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| Instrumental conditioning |
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| a process where in a person learns what response to make in a situation in order to obtain a positive reinforcement or avoid a negative reinforcement |
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| acquisition of behavior based on the observation of another person’s behavior and its consequences for that person |
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| What are the components of a life course? |
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| (1) Career (2)Identities and self-esteem (3)stress and satisifaction |
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