PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Affective Forecasting, Impact Bias, Timothy Wilson
11 Mar 2013
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Self-concept: a person"s answers to the question, who am i? . Controlled processing: explicit thinking that is deliberate, reflective, and conscious. Automatic processing: implicit thinking that is effortless, habitual, and without awareness, roughly corresponds to intuition . Impact bias: overestimating the enduring impact of emotion-causing events. Dual attitudes: differing implicit (automatic) and explicit (consciously controlled) attitudes toward the same object. Verbalized explicit attitudes may change with education and persuasion; implicit attitudes change slowly, with practice that forms new habits. Social comparison: evaluating one"s abilities and opinions by comparing oneself to others. Self-esteem: a person"s overall self-evaluation or sense of self-worth. Social identity: the we aspect of our self-concept. The part of our answer to who am i? that comes from our group memberships. Self-schema: beliefs about self that organize and guide the processing of self-relevant information. Self-reference effect: the tendency to process efficiently and remember well information related to oneself.
