PSY 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Normative Social Influence, Graduate School, Depressive Realism

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 101
• Professor: Professor Hawk

Document Summary

High self-esteem positive expectations high effort success self-credit back to high self-esteem. Many advertisements makes you think you are awesome even when they don"t know you to boost your self-esteem. Some advertisements makes you feel bad by judging the way how you look. Self-conscious persons & self-focusing situations self-awareness self-discrepancies (you are different from your ideal) change behavior to match standards & escape from self- awareness. Students tend to rate their own changes as above average for positive events and below average for negative events. Exp: 94% of college professors think that they do above average work. Depressive realism - depressed individuals make more realistic inferences than do non-depressed individuals. Many argue that illusions are necessary for mental health. Too many illusions are bad because it makes you unlikeable. The study of the relationship among psychology, the nervous and endocrine symptoms, and the immune systems. Biological factors & social factors health & wellness physiological factors.