Building and Maintaning Relationships Flashcards
(52 cards)
who said,
“Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approachbour fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.”
Tom Hanks
Two Element of Self-Concept
Self-Schemas and Self
How you define yourself. These are greatly affect how you perceive, remember, and evaluate yourself and ithers.
Self-Schemas
Who you might become.
Self
5 Factors afftecting Development of the Social Self
- Genetic
- Roles
- Social comparisons
- How other people think of us
- Culture
We often have a difficulty predicting the intensity and duration of our future emotions.
Self-Knowledge
It is the overall sense of self-worth that we use to evaluate traits or abilities.
Self-Esteem
It motivates us to meet others’ expectations, therfore maintaining or increasing our self-esteem.
Social Rejection
Have high self-esteem. Their self-centeredness often leads to relationship problems over time.
Narcissism or Narcissist
It is the extent to which people perceive control.
Locus of Control
It refers to the belief that you are in control of your own destiny.
Internal Locus of Control
It refers to the feeling that outside forces determine your fate.
External Locus of Control
It is the tendency to see yourself in a favoravle light.
Self-serving bias
We often take credit for our success and attribute failure to external factors.
Self-serving attributions
We adjust our words and actions to create an impression that will suit our audiences.
Self-presentation
Wherein you protect your self-esteem with behavior that will conveniently excuse failure.
Self-handicapping
It can unconsciously affect how people think as well as how they would act.
Priming
This is how we interpret everything is a result of our beliefs.
Belief perseverance
Three Factors that influence our attributions based on Harold Kelley’s Theory of Attribution of 1972
- Consistency
- Distinctiveness
- Consensus
It suggest that when we observe an individual’s behavior, we try to find whether it was caused internally and for externally
Attribution
Kelley’s Theory of Attribution
INTERNALLY CAUSED BEHAVIORS are under the personal control of an individual
EXTERNALLY CAUSED BEHAVIOR is due to some outside causes or situation
It is a preconceived negative attitude towards a group and its individual members.
Prejudice
These are beliefs about another group that may be accurate, inaccurate, or overgeneralized.
Stereotypes
This is unjustified, negative behavior towards a group or its members, and often rooted in prejuidicial behavior.
Discrimination