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Flashcards by Ellie Wilson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Ellie Wilson
almost 12 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| SPOTLIGHT EFFECT | The belief that others are paying more attention to our appearance and behaviour than they really are. |
| ILLUSION OF TRANSPARENCY | The illusion that our concealed emotions leak out and can be easily read by others |
| SELF- CONCEPT | What we know and believe about ourselves |
| SELF-SCHEMA | Beliefs about the self that organise and guide the processing of self-relevant information |
| POSSIBLE SELVES | Images of what we dream of or dread becoming in the future |
| SOCIAL COMPARISON | Evaluating one's abilities and opinions by comparing oneself with others |
| INDIVIDUALISM | The concept of giving priority to one's goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications |
| INDEPENDENT SELF | Constructing one's identity as an autonomous self |
| COLLECTIVISM | Giving priority to the goals of one's group (often one's extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly |
| INDEPENDENT SELF | Constructing one's identity in relation to others |
| PLANNING FALLACY | The tendency to underestimate how long it will take to complete a task |
| IMPACT BIAS | Overestimating the enduring impact of emotion-causing events |
| IMMUNE NEGLECT | The human tendency to underestimate the speed or strength of the 'psychological immune system', which enables emotional recovery and resilience after bad things happen |
| DUAL ATTITUDE SYSTEM | Differing implicit (automatic) and explicit (consciously controlled) attitudes toward the same object. Verbalised explicit attitudes may change with education and persuasion; implicit attitudes change slowly, with practice that forms a new habit |
| SELF-ESTEEM | A person's overall self-evaluation or sense of self-worth |
| TERROR MANAGEMENT THEORY | Proposes that people exhibit self-protective emotional and cognitive responses (including adhering more strongly to their cultural worldviews with reminders of their mortality. |
| SELF-EFFICACY | A sense that one is competent and effective, distinguished from self-esteem, which is one's sense of self-worth. A sharpshooter in the military might feel high self-efficacy and low self-esteem |
| LOCUS OF CONTROL | The extent of which people perceive outcomes as internally controllable by chance or outside forces |
| LEARNED HELPLESSNESS | The sense of hopelessness and resignation learned when a human or animal perceives no control over repeated bad events |
| SELF-SERVING BIAS | The tendency to perceive oneself favourably |
| FALSE CONSENSUS EFFECT | The tendency to overestimate the commonality of one's opinions and one's undesirable or unsuccessful behaviours |
| FALSE UNIQUENESS EFFECT | The tendency to underestimate the commonality of one's ability and one's desirable or successful behaviours |
| GROUP-SERVING BIAS | Explaining away outgroup members' positive behaviours; also attributing negative behaviours to their dispositions (while excusing such behaviour by one's own group) |
| SELF-HANDICAPPING | Protecting one's self-image with behaviours that create a handy excuse for later failure |
| SELF-PRESENTATION | The act of expressing oneself and behaving in ways designed to create a favourable impression or an impression that corresponds to one's ideals |
| SELF-MONITORING | Being attuned to the way one presents oneself in social situations and adjusting one's performance to create the desired impression |
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