PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Social Comparison Theory, Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Symbolic Interactionism
6 Feb 2018
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Reflected appraisals: seeing ourselves through the eyes of others. Symbolic interactionism - the perspective that people use their understanding of how significant people in their lives view them as the primary basis for knowing and evaluating themselves. Social comparison: knowing the self through comparison with others: a second way in which people learn who they are is by comparing themselves with others. Self-perception theory: knowing the self by observing one"s own behaviour. Facial feedback hypothesis - the idea that changes in facial expression elicit emotions associated with those expressions. Two-factor theory of emotion - the theory that people"s emotions are the product of both their arousal level and how they interpret that arousal. Emotion = arousal x cognitive label: misattribution of arousal - ascribing arousal resulting from one source to a different source. Excitation transfer theory - the idea that leftover arousal caused by an initial event can intensify emotional reactions to a second event.
