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Flashcards by Cornelia C, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Cornelia C
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| Question | Answer |
| Consequences of differing levels of self-awareness. Describe the one self/many self erotic story experiment. | Participants asked to think of a friend or relative, then read an erotic story. Those who had previously been thinking about their friend rated the story as more enjoyable than those who thought about a relative. |
| Define self-concept | Your knowledge of who you are, your personal characteristics. Biographical information, personal characteristics, autobiographical memory. |
| Define self-esteem | Your evaluation of yourself, the value you place on your characteristics individually and collectively. |
| Bem's self-perception theory | We receive feedback on our behaviour from different sources and this provides knowledge about our self. 1) Self-perception 2) Emotional reactions 3) Reactions of others |
| Define cognitive dissonance | Tension produced by holding two contradictory ideas. People are motivated to reduce dissonance (ex: Buyer's remorse). |
| Methods of Reducing cognitive dissonance | 1) Negate dissonant cognitions 2) Add new consonant cognitions 3) Reduce importance of dissonant cognitions 4) Increase importance of consonant cognitions |
| Describe the principles of self-discrepancythory | Standpoints of self: own/other Domains of self: actual/ideal/ought. Negative consequences associated with domain/standpoint discrepancies. |
| Define the social comparison theory | Comparing oneself to external markers (often people) to evaluate one's opinions, abilities, and value. (upward/downward social comparisons). As gap between self and specific other decreases, tendency to make a comparison decreases. |
| Give the potential protection mechanisms associated with self-esteem | 1) Escape/avoidance: easiest way to reduce threat is to escape or avoid the situation that produces it. 2) Self-serving bias: tendency to attribute failures to situational factors, but successes to disposition. |
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