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What is impression management?

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The process we attempt to manage our own image by influencing the perceptions of other

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What is dramaturgical perspective?

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We imagine ourselves as playing certain roles when interacting with others

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What is the goal of dramaturgical perspective?

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Present an acceptable self to others

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What is self-concept?

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The self-identity, self-construction or self-perspective - beliefs about who you are as an individual

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What makes up the self-concept or self-identity?

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Personal identity and social identity

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What is the nemonic for identity self-concept to remember the cultural characteristics?

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Addressing

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What is self-schemas?

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Beliefs and ideas you have about yourself

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What does self-schemas help you do?

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Guide and organize the processing of information that is relevant to you

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What is statement of fact?

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A characteristics that’s neither good or bad

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What is self-efficacy to the task?

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Specific tasks

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What is self-efficacy?

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How good you think you are at doing something

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What is high self-efficacy?

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You believe you are good at doing something

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What is low self-efficacy?

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You believe you’re bad at doing something

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What is locus of control?

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Whether you think you have control over what happens to you

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What is internal locus of control?

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You believe you have control over events

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What is external locus of control?

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You do not believe you have control over events

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What is low self-efficacy and external locus of control?

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Learned helplessness

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Based on learned helplessness, does it include tasks that you predict being bad at?

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No, it has to be tried

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What is aversive control?

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Behavior is motivated by the reality or threat of something unpleasant happeing

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What are the two types of aversive control?

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  1. Escape behavior

2. Avoidance behavior

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What is escape behavior?

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Termination of an unpredicted, unpleasant stimulus that has already occurred

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What is avoidance behavior?

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Avoidance of a predictable, unpleasant stimulus before it is initiated

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What concept best applies to self-schemas?

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Beliefs about the self

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What concept best applies to self-esteem?

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Beliefs about one’s self-woth

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What concept best applies to self-efficacy?
Belief's in one's competence
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What concept best applies to locus of control?
Locus of control
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What is social learning theory?
earning through observation even in the absence of motor reproduction or direct reinforcements
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What are reference groups?
Any one that helped
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What is social comparison theory?
Gain accurate self-evaluations by comparing ourselves to others
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What is perspective taking?
Ability to understand the cognitive and affective aspects of another's persons' point of view; known as role taking
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What is moral identity?
The degree to which being a moral person is important to a person's identity
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What are the levels of moral identity?
1. Preconventional 2. Conventional 3. Postconventional
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Why are rules obeyed in preconventional?
Avoid punishment and for personal gain
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Why are rules obeyed in conventional?
Obeyed for approval ad to maintain social order; avoid anomie
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What are rules followed in post conventional?
Rules that infringe on the rights of others are challenged; establish own rules with personal ethical principles
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What is social facilitation effect?
Tendency of performance to improve for simple, well-ingrained tasks
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Social facilitation tends to not occur for....?
For novel, complex tasks
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What is deindividuation?
High degree of arousal and low degree of personal responsibility, lose sense of restraint and individual identity
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What is another term with deindividuation?
Mob mentality
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What is the bystander effect?
Most people are less likely to help a victim when other people are present
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What is diffusion of responsibility?
The tendency that the larger the group, the less likely individuals in the group will act or take responsibility
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What is social loafing?
When people work in a group, each person is likely to exert less individual effort than working alone
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What is peer pressure?
Refers to situations in which individuals feels directly or indirectly pressured to change their behavior to math that of their peers
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What are peer groups?
Are social groups whose members are close in age and share interests
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What is group think?
Desire to achieve harmony and reach a consensus decision
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What does group think cause?
Groups to not critically evaluate alternative viewpoints and leads to irrational or dysfunctional decision-making
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When is groupthink more likely to occur?
Overly optimism and strongly believes in its stance
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How does the groupthink in group justifies their own decisions?
Demonizes those of its opponent s
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What happens when a groupthink dissents the group?
Opinions, information and facts are preventing from permeating the group (mindguarding)
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What do the individuals that dissent feel?
Feel pressured to censor their own opinions in favor of the perceived consensus which creates an illusion of group unanimity
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What is group polarization?
A group agreement causes the preexisting views of group members to intensify
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Group polarization involves only...
1 group
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What is a dispositional attribution?
Internal causes: attribute behavior to this a character flaw
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What is situational attribution?
External causes: attribute behavior by an excuse
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What is fundamental attribution error?
Attribute another person's behavior to their personality
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What is actor-observer bias?
Attribute our own actions to the situation
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What is self-serving bias?
Attribute our successes to ourselves, but our failures to others
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What is optimism bias?
Bad things happen to other people but not to ourselves
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What is just world belief?
Bad things happen to others because of their own actions or inaction
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What is the difference type of groups in ultimate attribution error?
1. In-Group Member | 2. Out-Group Member
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If an in-group member make a good behavior?
Result of person's character or personality (internal attribution)
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If an out-group member make a good behavior?
Uncommon circumstances or an exception to the rule (external attribution_
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If an in-group member make a bad behavior?
Believed to be rare, an exception to the rule (External attribution)
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If an out-group member make a bad behavior?
Flaw in that person's character or personality (internal attribution)
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What do we call the belief in the superiority of the one group/culture over another?
Ethnocentrism

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