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Chapter 7.1-7.2: Identity and Social Interaction Flashcards

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Self-concept

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the sum of an individual’s knowledge and understanding about oneself; includes physical, psychological, and social attributes

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Self-schemas

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beliefs that a person has about himself; self-concept is based on this

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Personal identity

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one’s own sense of personal attributes

ex. smart, funny

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Social identity

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social definitions of who you are

ex. race, religion, gender, occupation

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Self-reference effect

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tendency to better remember information relevant to ourselves

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Carl Rogers

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founder of humanistic psychology perspective; personality is composed to the ideal self and the real self
ideal self - constructed out of life expectations, experiences, and thing admired about role models
real self - who you actually are
When ideal self and real self don’t match, the result is incongruity

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Self-efficacy

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belief in one’s own competence and effectiveness, how capable we believe we are of doing things

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Locus of control

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internal - believe they are able to influence outcomes through their own efforts and actions
external - perceive outcomes as controlled by outside forces

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Learned helplessness

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people with external locus of control develop this; people who are exposed to situations in which they have no control may learn not to act because they believe it will not affect the outcome anyway

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Self-esteem

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one’s overall self-evaluation of one’s self-worth

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Identity formation (Individuation)

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development of a distinct individual personality; through Erikson’s psychosocial stages, identity formation takes place during adolescense (age 12-20, identity vs. role confusion stage)

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Looking-glass self

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Charles cooley said that a person’s sense of self develops from interpersonal interactions with other in society and the perceptions of others; people shape their self-concepts based on their understanding of how others perceive them

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Social behaviorism

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George Hebert Mead; the mind and self emerge through the process of communicating with others and through the use of symbols - beginning of symbolic interactionism

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Generalized other

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the common behavioral expectations of general society
“me” - how the individual believes the generalized other perceives it
“I” - response of the individual to the attitudes of others

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Socialization

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the process through which people learn to be proficient and functional members of society

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Norms

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society’s spoken or unspoken rules and expectations for the behavior of its members; reinforced in everyday social interactions by sanctions

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Types of norms

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formal norms - generally written down, precisely defined, publicly presented, accompanied by strict penalties ex. laws
informal norms - generally understood but less precise and carry no specific punishments
mores - norms that are important for the benefit of society and so are strictly enforced ex. against animal abuse or treason
folkways - norms that are less important but shape everyday behavior ex. style of dress, ways of greeting

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Agents of socialization

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family, school, peers, the workplace, religion/government, mass media/technology

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Assimilation

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process in which in individuals forsakes aspects of his or her own cultural tradition to adopt those of a different culture

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Amalgamation

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majority and minority groups combine to form a new group

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Multiculturalism

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a perspective that endorses equal standing for all cultural traditions - promotes idea of cultures coming together in a true melting pot

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Subculture

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a segment of society that shares a distinct pattern of traditions and values that differs from that of the larger society ex. hippies, medical personnel

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Kohlberg’s stages of moral development

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stages cannot be skipped, and most adults attain stage 4 but do not surpass it
Stage 1 - obedience and punishment orientation
Stage 2- self-interest orientation
Stage 3- interpersonal accord and conformity
Stage 4- authority and social-order maintaining orientation
Stage 5- social contract orientation
Stage 6- universal ethical principles

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Attribution theory

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individuals attribute behavior to internal causes (dispositional attribution) or external causes (situational attribution); people tend to assign dispositional attributions to others but give themselves situational attribution
3 factors influence attribution: consistency, distinctiveness, and consensus

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Fundamental attribution error
we tend to underestimate the impact of the situation and overestimate the impact of a person's character or personality; assume that people are how they act
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Actor-observer bias
tendency to blame our actions on the situation and blame the actions of others on their personalities
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Self-serving bias
tendency to attribute success to ourselves and our failures to others or the external environment
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Optimism bias
belief that bad things happen to other people, but not to us
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Just world phenomenon
a tendency to believe that the world is fair and people get what they deserve
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Halo effect
tendency to believe that people have inherently good or bad natures, rather than looking at individual characteristics physical attractiveness stereotype - a specific type of halo effect, people tend to rate attractive individuals more favorably for personality traits and characteristics
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Social perception
understanding others in our social world, the initial information we process about other people in order to try to understand their mindsets and intentions; the process responsible for our judgements and impressions about other people
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Social cognition
ability of the brain to store and process information regarding social perception
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False consensus
occurs when we assume that everyone else agrees with what we do, even though they may not
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Projection bias
when we assume others have the same beliefs we do
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Stereotypes
oversimplified ideas about groups of people, based on characteristics
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Prejudice
thoughts, attitudes, and feelings someone holds about a group that are not based on actual experience
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Discrimination
acting a certain way toward a group
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
stereotypes can lead to behaviors that affirm the original stereotypes
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Stereotype threat
a self-fulfilling fear that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype; it can reduce performance
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Ethnocentrism
a tendency to judge people from another culture by the standards of one's own culture
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Cultural relativism
judging another culture based on its own standards
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Group
collection of any number of people who regularly interact and identify with each other, sharing norms, values and expectations
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Aggregate
people who exist in the same space but do not interact or share a common identity
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Category
people who share similar characteristics but are not otherwise tied together
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Primary groups
play a more important role in individual's life, they are usually smaller and include those with whom the individual engages with in person, in long-term emotional ways; serve expressive functions
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Secondary groups
larger and more impersonal, may interact for specific reasons for shorter periods of time; serve instrumental functions
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In-group
a group that a person belongs to and believes to be an integral part of who she is
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Out-group
a group that a person does not belong to
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Reference group
a standard measure that people compare themselves to
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Mere presence
basic level of experience between members of society; people are simply in each other's presence; can have a measurable effect on an individual's performance
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Social facilitation effect
people tend to perform simple, well-learned tasks better when other people are present
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Deindividuation
people may lose their sense of restraint and their individual identity in exchange for identifying with a group or mob mentality
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Bystander effect
a person is less likely to provide help when there are other bystanders
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Social loafing
a tendency for people to exert less effort if they are being evaluated as a group than if they are individually accountable
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Group polarization
the entire group tends toward more extreme versions of the average views they initially shared before discussions; due to: informational influence - when the most common ideas that emerge are the ones that favor the dominant viewpoint, which persuades others to take a stronger stance normative influence - based on wanting to be accepted or admired by others
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Groupthink
a state of harmony without a group, caused by pressure not to "rock the boat" in a group by providing a dissenting opinion
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Deviance
a violation of society's standards of conduct or expectations
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Stigma
society often devalues deviant members by assigning these demeaning labels
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Group (peer) Pressure
Solomon Asch - people chose which lines were similar, they chose incorrectly when others around them were incorrect; found that people adjust behavior and thinking based on others - conformity
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Obedience
Stanley Milgram - participants were surprisingly obedient and administered shocks; experiment speaks to the power of authority and the discomfort that being disobedient invokes

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