PSYC 307 Chapter 8-14: PSYC 307 Final Exam Notes
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Self enhancement- the motivation to view oneself positively: research shows that people have a strong need to view themselves positively. Self esteem-the positivity of your overall evaluation of yourself: a lot of people with high self esteem. Self-serving biases- tendencies for people to exaggerate how good they think they are: study showed that 94% percent of professors think they are better than the average. Downward social comparison- comparing your performance with the performance of someone else who is doing worse than you. Upward social comparison- we compare our performance with someone ho is doing better than we are. These tend to be painful because the contrast can make our own performance look worse. Compensatory self enhancement- you acknowledge the poor grade you got in class but instead think of other excellent skills you have. Discounting- reducing the perceived importance of the domain in which you performed poorly. External attribution- attributes the cause of our action to something outside you.
