PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Motivation, Social Cognition, Nuremberg Trials
Display Rules
● Cultural rules dictate how emotions should be expressed and where and when it is
appropriate to do so
Display Rules
→ Cultural rules dictate how emotions should be expressed and where and when it is
appropriate to do so.
→ eg. kid gets a bad gift - the kid will pretend it was a good gift to the gift giver even if they hate
it
→ eg. At a funeral home if you start to giggle than you pretend you are crying
→ important lesson in guarding and sharing emotions
Bonus game
→ Point: achievement motivation
Achievement motivation
→ extrinsic motivation: grade, prize (competition so you work harder)
→ intrinsic motivation : interested in outcome (need this for long term motivation)
Social Psychology
→ How actual, imagined or implied presence of others influences our feelings and behaviors
→ the presence of another can guide how we act
→ Previously we have explored..
- biological/bran/developmental
- Cognition
- behavioural / learning
… explanations for our behaviours, thoughts and feelings
So What is New with Social Psychology?
→ others
Being in a social world impacts our thinking
→ social cognition
- Interpret and understand social events
- Differs from other cognitive acts because of the social content
Cognition in a social world
→ what do we learn from others?
- language - to communicate feelings, beliefs and expectations
- Pass social information along through generations (stories about who we are, history)
Social Cognition
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Document Summary
Cultural rules dictate how emotions should be expressed and where and when it is appropriate to do so. Eg. kid gets a bad gift - the kid will pretend it was a good gift to the gift giver even if they hate it. Eg. at a funeral home if you start to giggle than you pretend you are crying. Important lesson in guarding and sharing emotions. Extrinsic motivation: grade, prize (competition so you work harder) Intrinsic motivation : interested in outcome (need this for long term motivation) How actual, imagined or implied presence of others influences our feelings and behaviors. The presence of another can guide how we act. Explanations for our behaviours, thoughts and feelings. Being in a social world impacts our thinking. Differs from other cognitive acts because of the social content. What do we learn from others? language - to communicate feelings, beliefs and expectations. Pass social information along through generations (stories about who we are, history)
