PSY socialpsykologi 8

A plan that specifies how research participants will be selected and treated.

Involves sexual feelings, a sense of intense longing for the partner, euphoric feelings of fulfillment and ecstasy when the relationship goes well, and anxiety and despair when it does not.

The ability of a cue to attract attention in its context.

A statement that satisfies three requirements: It is about constructs; it describes causal relations; and it is general in scope, although the range of generality differs for different theories.

The motivational principle that people seek support, liking, and acceptance from the people and groups they care about and value.

Any action or event that enhances or highlights one’s own sense of personal integrity, such as affirming one’s most important values.

Summaries of a person’s beliefs about the self in specific domains, roles, or activities.

A state of heightened awareness of the self, including our internal standards and whether we measure up to them.

The process of seeing oneself as a member of a social group.

The extent to which a person possesses many and diverse self-aspects.

All of an individual's knowledge about his or her personal qualities.

Any tendency to gather or interpret information concerning the self in a way that leads to overly positive evaluations.

An individual’s positive or negative evaluation of himself or herself.

A theory outlining the conditions under which people’s 574 self-esteem will be maintained or will suffer based on social comparisons to close or distant others.

A motive for choosing behaviors that are intended to reflect and express the self-concept.

The process by which one person’s expectations about another become reality by eliciting behaviors that confirm the expectations.

Seeking to avoid blame for an expected poor performance, either by claiming an excuse in advance or by actively sabotaging one’s own performance (for example, by failing to practice).

A personality characteristic defined as the degree to which people are sensitive to the demands of social situations and shape their behaviors accordingly.

The theory that we make inferences about our personal characteristics on the basis of our overt behaviors when internal cues are weak or ambiguous.

A motive for choosing behaviors intended to create in observers a desired impression of the self.

Efforts to control one’s behavior in line with internal standards (selfguides) or external standards.

Those based on asking the individual about his or her thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.

Core characteristics that a person believes characterize him or her across situations.

The process of identifying individual people as members of a social group because they share certain features that are typical of the group.

The strategy of improving the overall societal situation of a stigmatized group.

The theory that people learn about and evaluate their personal qualities by comparing themselves to others.

One group member working especially hard to compensate for another’s low level of effort or performance.

The strategy of directly seeking to change the conditions that disadvantage the in-group, for example, by building group solidarity and challenging the out-group.

The strategy of introducing and emphasizing new dimensions of social comparison, on which a negatively regarded group can see itself as superior.

People’s tendency to act in ways that they believe others find acceptable and approve of.