CAS PS 261 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Syphilis, Cognitive Dissonance, Social Cognition
2 Jul 2020
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The study of how our behaviors, thoughts, and feelings are influenced by others (real or imagined). Social psychologists are motivated by the desire to: Resolve social problems - motivated to have direct impact. Study social processes that result in unjust legal practices. Increase conservation and access to natural resources. Increase self-esteem and confidence, promote health and well-being in people of all ages, and reduce depression and anxiety. Self concept: our beliefs about ourselves, including attributed and who and what we are. Self-concept includes self-identity and it"s more expansive (takes on more) than self-identity. Self-identity is more about the roles we take on. Self-representations: attributes (causal explanations) that we (uniquely) pair with ourselves. How we think about ourselves and the social world. How we interpret, recall and use social information. Our expectations can sometimes prevent us from perceiving the world accurately. Fundamental attribution error: overestimating dispositional causes and underestimating external causes.
