Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Optimism Bias, Dispositional Attribution, Stereotype Threat

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Socialization describes the process by which people learn the attitudes, behaviours, and values expected by their culture/community. Can be learned through parents, peers, person at supermarket, celebrity, etc. Socialization also shapes our self-image, and charles cooley used the term. Looking glass self to describe this process idea that a person"s sense of self develops from interpersonal interactions with others. Thought this happened in 3 steps: 1) how do i appear to others, 2) what must others think of me? (shy, intelligent, awkward, 3) revise how we think about ourselves (based on correct or incorrect perceptions). Critical aspect of this theory is cooley believed we are not actually being influenced by opinions of others, but what we imagine the opinions of other people to be: ex. Say we have teacher grading paper harshly, and doing it because they think that student has a lot of potential.