PS270 Study Guide - Ethnocentrism, Cortisol, Belief Perseverance

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30 Apr 2013
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Egocentric bias- we think we did more because things that we personally do get processed more. Principle of scarcity: if you limit how many things are available, people want it more. Self-concept: cognitive beliefs and knowledge we attribute to ourselves. Self-complexity: if we have many ideas of our identity, little overlap between identities this is a high level of self-complexity. Self-complexity helps buffer against adversity, if i do badly in school it seems ok because i"m a friend, musician etc. Social distinctiveness is often related to the current minority identity. Schemas: mental templates collectivist cultures: focus on harmony and fitting in, modesty, duty. We are bad at predicting our own actions, we can better predict other"s action than our own. , to guess our future it is best to look at our past. Impact bias: misinterpreting the amount a circumstance will affect us, we tend to equalize out our happiness level.

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