Quiz 1

• Eventual self


  Future self-schema you imagine
• Feared self


  Negative future self-schema you imagine
• Hoped-for self


  Positive future self-schema you imagine
• Possible self


  Future self-schema you imagine
• We really don't know ourselves as well as we think we do
• Imagining a life of the rich and famous for yourself after seeing a lottery billboard

  • Possible self
• Self-serving bias


  Blaming the tree for getting in your way after crashing the car
• Social psychology


  The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another
• Our attitudes and behaviors are shaped by external social forces
• Social comparison


  Preferring that professors post exam scores (by identification number) rather than returning them individually to feel better in relation to other students
• Internal locus of control

  Thinking of oneself as the writer, director, and actor of one's own life
• External locus of control

  Believing that external factors control one's life
• Values can influence not only social psychology, but also emotions, actions, intuitions, and everyday language
• Barbara was really shocked when her candidate was not elected because she had assumed that everyone felt as she did and supported her candidate's ideas
• Emotions are favorable or unfavorable evaluative reactions toward something or someone
• Our attitudes also follow our behavior which leads us to strongly believe those things we have committed ourselves
• Correlational research


  Collecting data on the amount that students study and their grades to determine if there is a relationship between hours spent studying and grades
• Objective reality


  Reality is filtered by our values and beliefs
• Individualistic culture


  Culture where self-esteem correlates closely with what others think of you and your group
• Collectivistic culture


  Culture where self-esteem correlates closely with what others think of you and your group
• Self-esteem


  A sense that one is competent and effective
• External locus of control

  Believing that external factors, like the difficulty of the exam, caused the poor performance
• We compare our current feelings with a cultural standard or ideal and see how closely the real matches the ideal
• According to Triplett, it is possible for a minority to overcome majority influence as long as the minority is consistent and confident
• The interdependent self is embedded in social membership and has a sense of belonging
• Topics social psychologists study

  • love
  • conformity
  • intelligence
  • attitudes
• Self-serving bias


  The tendency to perceive oneself favorably
• Learned helplessness


  Feeling that one should give up because whatever one does does not seem to help
• Spotlight effect


  The belief that others are paying more attention to one's appearance and behavior than they actually are
• Factors that can influence social psychology

  • gender
  • values
  • culture
  • age
• Objectifying and refuting


  Test; organize
• Social psychology


  The study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others
• Learned helplessness is the symptom where you feel that whatever you do does not seem to help your exam scores, so you feel you should give up
• The spotlight effect


  The belief that others are paying more attention to one's appearance and behavior than they actually are
• Gender stereotypes


  Whether we label a woman as "ambitious" or "aggressive" is a reflection of our gender stereotypes
• Initial efforts to lose weight, stop smoking, or improve grades are successful

  Self-efficacy will increase
• Self-efficacy


  Feelings of confidence in one's abilities
• Culture


  The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
• We learn about our own abilities and attitudes by comparing ourselves with other people
• Intuition is both powerful and perilous