PSYC 260 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ego Depletion, Deindividuation, Impression Management
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Our social identities make up the self-schema. The sense of ourselves that involves our membership in certain groups. I am a daughter, tar heel, christian, musician. The self-schema & the rules of cognition influencing the self-concept. Power of the situation to activate social identities. Social identity - the sense of our self that involves our memberships in social groups i. e. occupation, religious affiliation, ethnicity, etc. Behavior informs your attitudes (telling yourself what you do or don"t like by reviewing the things you do like: caveat: neutral, peripheral, or weakly held attitudes. Headphones study: wells & petty (1980: had participants listen to a message while wearing big headphones. Told them they wanted to see how the headphones worked. One group didn"t move, one shook their head up and down, the other group shook their head side to side. Group two: more agreement than control condition. Group three: less agreement than control condition. (raised the accessibility.
