Social Psych

Self Esteem (state)

How you feel in the short term

Augmenting

Increasing; enlarging a certain behavior. (We will assign more weight to this internal cause other than ___

Output (what it looks like)

Internal (is it dispational? (Inside) OR External (something in situation that is causing behavior?) Stable OR Unstable (stayed up to late, sick) Global (cause of behavior effects a wide range of things) Or specific

Positive Test Strategy

Look for the presence of cases that confirm the hypothesis. Tends to lead to biased conclusions when stimuli are vague/complex (Wording Ex:) "Which parent shouldn't (should) receive the child?"

self-fulfilling prophecy

a belief that leads to its own fulfillment (creating the behaviors we expected to see) 55min

False consensus

a belief that others share the same opinion about something, when actually most don't

downward social comparison theory

comparing ourselves to people who are worse than we are to boost ego

upward social comparison

comparing yourself to people better than you

illusion of control

people's belief that they can influence events, even when they have no control over what will happen

false uniqueness

the tendency to underestimate the commonality of one's abilities and one's desirable or successful behaviors

"I have a jelly bean stuck in my ear" study

-children asked on week about if they ever had a jelly bean in the ear

Input

Consistency (same person act the same way in the same situation?) Consensus (same situation, different situation) Distinctiveness (same person, other situations)

Attributions

Figure out ways to gather info that we need. (3 input, 3 output)

Global

Global (cause of behavior effects a wide range of things) Or specific Did you get an A on the exam because it was easy or did you get an A on the exam because you were smart

Self Esteem (Trait)

More stable, consistent over time.

Are we good at accessing a liar?

No. Things like "looking up and to the left to recall a story" isn't as accurate as we think.

Discounting

So many things leading twoards this success (why'd she do good on a test) she has study hall hours, is a tutor blah blah blah

selective perception

The phenomenon that people often pay the most attention to things they already agree with and interpret them according to their own predispositions.