PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Spreading Activation, Unconditionally, Social Cognition

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Mark W Baldwin

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Expectancy (car goes fast) x value (i want to go fast) = positive emotional reaction. Expectancy (car will go slow) x value (need to go fast) = negative emotional reaction. Need to belong: key ideas: sociometer theory: through evolution, we develop an automatic response to say: Am i securely connected: self-esteem feelings may arise from an evolved system to monitor social inclusion, self-esteem does correlate with feelings of being accepted by significant others: Individuals with higher self-esteem tend to feel more accepted: conditional acceptance: acceptance is conditional on one thing or another. If we do certain things or have certain characteristics, people will like us. If we have other characteristics, people won"t like us: versus unconditional acceptance, influences self-evaluative feelings, a person"s ratings of: How would i feel about myself (if i had certain successes and failures) correlates with . Learned patterns of acceptance, patterns of ___ despite grandparents have passed away.