PSYC 3350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7-14: Voodoo Death, Symmetry In Biology, Fundamental Attribution Error
3 Feb 2017
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Self-enhancement: the motivation to view oneself positively. Self-serving biases: tendencies for people to exaggerate how good they think they are. North americans- majority of them have high self-esteem. It causes a positive light towards us are. Downward social comparison: comparing your performance with the performance of someone who is. Upward social comparison: when we compare our performance with someone who is doing better than we. Compensatory self-enhancement: you acknowledge the bad grade and you start think about skills. You think about the things you are good at therefore compensating for your failure and self-enhancement through positive thoughts. Discounting: reducing the perceived importance of the domain in which you performed poorly. External attribution: we attribute the cause of our actions to something outside ourselves, in contrast to an. Bask in the reflected glory: we do such basking when we emphasize our connection to successfully. Americans list more success memories than failure memories whereas japanese listed more failure than positive memories.
