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Chapter 2 Final Study Guide
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- 1Illusion of transparencythe illusion that our concealed emotions leak out and ben bee easily read by others
- 2Self-schemabeliefs about self that organize and guide the processing of self-relevant information
- 3Success-feeds-self-esteem principle:•Success at something makes a person feel better about them self causing high self esteem
•Failure at somethings makes a person feel worse about themselves causing low self esteem - 4•Individualism vs Collectivism:•Individualism - the concept of giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications
•Collectivism - giving priority to the goals of one's group (often one's extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly - 5interdependent self:constructing one's identity as autonomous self
- 6What are mirror neurons and what do they do?we see people do things and they fire and we copy the actions
- 7Negative effects of high and low self esteem:•High- blame others or try harder next time
•Low- people "break" - 8What is the relationship between bullies and self-esteem?bullies have low self esteem so they pick on other's flaws to make themselves feel better
- 9a sense that one is competent and effective, distinguished from self esteem, which is one's sense of self worthself-efficacy:
- 10•locus-of-control (two types)•internal
•external - 11the sense of hopelessness and resignation learned when a human or animal perceives no control over repeated bad eventsearned helplessness
- 12•Who developed the concept:Martin Seligman
- 13•self-serving biases are more likely under what circumstances ?•Assessing our competence
•Verifying our self-conceptions
•Enhancing our self image - 14the adaptive value of anticipating problems and harnessing one's anxiety to motivate effective actiondefensive pessimism:
- 15the tendency to overestimate the commonality of one's opinions and one's undesirable or unsuccessful behaviorsfalse consensus effect:
- 16the tendency to underestimate the commonality of one's desirable or successful behaviorsfalse uniqueness effect:
- 17protecting one's self image with behaviors that create a handy excuse for later failureself-handicapping:
- 18impression management:working on controlling impression we make on others
- 19Describe extremely high self monitors:social chameleons - adjust behavior in response to external situations
- 20describe extremely low self-monitorscare little about what others think
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