PSYC 6 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mirror Test, Hominidae, Social Perception
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The overall set of beliefs that people have about their personal attributes. Mental structures people use to organize their knowledge about the social world around themes or subjects and that influence the information people notice, think about, and remember. Looking inward at one"s own thoughts and feelings. When internal cues are difficult to interpret, people gain self-insight by observing their own behavior. Facial feedback hypothesis changes in facial expression can lead to corresponding changes in emotion (kleinke et al. , 1998) experiment with two manipulations: view photographs or mimic photographs + view self in mirror or not. Tendency for intrinsic motivation to diminish for activities that have become associated with reward. People evaluate their own abilities based on comparing to others. Emotions are combo of: physiological arousal, cognitive appraisal of the situation. The process whereby people make mistaken inferences about what is causing them to feel the way they do.
