Social Psychology Chapter 2

Social psych chapt 2 courtesy of myers

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Spotlight effect
The belief that others are paying more attention to one's appearance and behavior than they really are.
Illusion of transparency
The illusion that our concealed emotions leak out and can be easily read by others..
Self concept
A person's answers to the question "who am i?"
Self-reference effect
The tendency to process efficiently and remember well information related to oneself.
Possible selves
Images of what we dream of or dread becoming in the future
Social comparison
Evaluating one's abilities and opinions by comparing oneself with others.
Individualism
The concept of giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes .
Collectivism
Giving priority to the goals of one's groups (often one's extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly.
Inderdependent self
Construing one's identity in relation to others.
Confederate
An accomplice of the experimenter
Impact bias
Overestimating the enduring impact of emotion-causing events.
Immune neglect
The human tendency to neglect the speed and the strength of the "psychological immune system," which enables recovery after bad things happen.
Dual attitudes
Differing implicit and explicit attitudes toward the same object. Verbalized explicit attitudes may change with education and persuasion;
Self-esteem
A person's overall self evaluation or sense of self-worth.
Self-effiicacy
A sense that one is competent and effective distinguished from self-esteem, one's sense of self-worth.