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social psych
Question | Answer |
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social psychology | -attempts to understand how the thoughts feelings and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual implied or imagined presence of others |
social psychological phenomena | -can be analyzed and explained at different levels |
levels of analysis (Hogg and Vaughn 2010) | these types of concepts, mechanisms, and language used to explain a phenomenon |
different levels | ideological positional interpersonal intrapersonal |
ideological | -culture, values, and norms within a society |
positional | -aspects of social position such as status, group membership, relationships between groups |
interpersonal | -between individuals -interaction and features of the situation, presence of others |
intrapersonal | -within the individual -how we organize our experience, perceptions, sense of self |
Symbolic interactionism (e.g., Cooley, 1902; Mead, 1934) | “The looking-glass self”: We adopt the perspective of the ‘generalized other’ Seeing ourselves as others see us |
self-concept (Markus 1977) | -complete set of beliefs people have about themselves |
self-schemas | -attributions about which we are certain. and represent clearly -self-schematic and self-aschematic -determine our thoughts, feelings, and behavior |
Self-schemas influence basic cognitive processes | Participants who were self-schematic on independence or dependence more quickly identified words associated with their schemas and were more able to recall experiences that demonstrated their schema (Markus, 1977) |
Types of self-representation (Swan & Bosson, 2010) | -Active (working) vs. stored self-knowledge -Semantic vs. episodic self-knowledge -Explicit vs. implicit self-knowledge -Actual vs. possible selves -Global vs. specific -Personal vs. social |
Meta-cognitive aspects of self-representation (Swan & Bosson, 2010) | Valence Link to self-esteem Importance Certainty and clarity Stability Organization (compartmentalization vs. integration) Contingency (of self-esteem) |
Social comparison theory |