PS270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Impact Bias, Iden
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Social concept is the extent to which knowledge about the self is accurately, or consistently defined, and this deals with our personal and social identities. Rumination is an involuntary, neurotic form of self-focus associated with threat or uncertainty. Strategic self-presentation some important strategies are: self-promotion, exemplification, modesty, supplication and intimidation s. Impact bias the overestimation on the impact of abiding emotional impact of events. Self-serving bias people"s tendency to attribute positive events to their own internal factors but attribute negative events to external factors. Reflection an emotionally positive type of self- focus that associates openness to self- exploration and an intellectual discovering of one"s self. Schemes a cognitive framework that assist with organization and understanding information, Upward comparison the comparing of ourselves to others who we deem better than we are. Downward comparison of ourselves to others who aren"t as proficient as we are at given tasks.
