PSYC 3350 Chapter 8: chapter 8- motivation
31 Jan 2019
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Chapter 8- Motivation
301-313, 322-328!
Self Enhancement and Self-Esteem!
-self enhancement: motivation to view oneself positively !
•self-esteem: the positivitiy of your overall evaluation of yourself !
•self-serving biases: tendencies for people to exaggerate how good they think
they are !
•people have biased views of themselves because they are motivated to view
themselves positively !
-downward social comparison: comparing your performance to the persformance
of someone who is doing even worse than you!
-compensatory self-enhancement: acknowledging a poor performance, but
thinking about something else that you do well at (unrelated)!
- Discounting: reducing the importance of the domain in which there was poor
performance !
-external attribution: attributing the cause of their actions to something outside
themselves !
-basking in the reflected glory: emphasizing our connection to successfully
performing others and experience positivity in their success as our own (ingroup)!
-there is a positive relationship between independent self-construals and self-esteem
within a variety of cultures !
-independence and self-enhancement are related, however there has been evidence
in some collectivistic cultures of comparable levels of self-enhancement!
-westerners have stronger motivation to not only enhance their individual self, but
also their group self!
-indepenedent cultures find their successes more memorable while interdependent
people remember their failures more (use more external reasons for their successes)!
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Downward social comparison: comparing your performance to the persformance of someone who is doing even worse than you. Compensatory self-enhancement: acknowledging a poor performance, but thinking about something else that you do well at (unrelated) Discounting: reducing the importance of the domain in which there was poor performance. External attribution: attributing the cause of their actions to something outside themselves. Basking in the re ected glory: emphasizing our connection to successfully performing others and experience positivity in their success as our own (ingroup) There is a positive relationship between independent self-construals and self-esteem within a variety of cultures. Independence and self-enhancement are related, however there has been evidence in some collectivistic cultures of comparable levels of self-enhancement. Westerners have stronger motivation to not only enhance their individual self, but also their group self. Indepenedent cultures nd their successes more memorable while interdependent people remember their failures more (use more external reasons for their successes)
