PSYC 2040 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Deindividuation, Impression Management, Used People
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11-15: social psychology, the scientific study of how individuals think and feel about, interact with, and influence each other, individually and in groups, focuses on the individual within a given social situation, not: Sociology: looks at large group behavior and systems in society. Biology: examines the role of genetics in behavior. Anthropology: investigates the physical and cultural development of a. If we can take this and make a model: What other people do and how others react to us: self concept- all the ideas and thoughts, and information about our self, three components of the self o, private self, public self. How we see ourselves alone- separate from other peoples ways of evaluating us- how we truthfully evaluate our self. How we think others see us- we often try to manage our public self- if we generally get positive feedback from others- we probably have a positive public self parents see/saw us- authority figure, teacher, boss, etc-
