Psyc Ch4

a readiness to see negative outcomes as due to discrimination

presenting ourselves to a constantly observing and a potentially everchanging audience

self promotion, self verification perspective, ingraiation, self depreciating

presenting ourselves in a positive light

to induce others to agree with our views

trying to make others like us by praising them

putting the self down or imply one is not as good as the other (humble) to simply lower the audiences expectations of our abilities

self knowledge to privately contemplate who we are in an effort to gain self Knowledge

we do not always know the reason for our actions; we can be mislead when we attempt to predict how we will feel about a particular event int he future

Suggest that we will move closer to positive others with whom we share adn identity but distance from other ingroup members who perform poorly or otherwise make our social identity negative

At the personal level we can be thought of as a unique individual where as with the social identity we think of the self as a member of a group

when someone or some object stands out from its background or is the focus of attention

judgements that result from comparisons between individuals who are members of the same group

judgements that result from comparisons between our group and another group

Independent and Interdependent

image of how we might be in the future either a dreaded potential to be avoided or desired potential that can be strived for

memory of the ourselves in the past, soemtimes over the life course as a whole

the belief that we can achieve a goal as a result of our own actions

foregoing short term rewards adn instead waiting for longterm rewards

the degree to which we perseve ourselves positively or negatively; our overall attitude toward ourselves

Upward SC- a comparison to someone who does better than or is superior to. Downward SC- a comarison to someone who does less well than us or who is inferior

suggested that people compare themselves to others because for many domains and attributes there is no objective yardstick to evaluate ourselves against adn other people are therefore highly informative

above average affect and positive illusions

the tendency for people to rate themselves as above the average on most posivite attributes

beliefs we hold about ourselves that are not entirely accurate- that we can do more than is the case, that negative events are not as likely to befall us as they are others and chances for success are higher for the self than others

belief that prejudice is rare opposed to the belief that prejudice happens fequently fig 4.18

prejudice can interfere with our ability to learn and aquire new skills; feeling we need to hide our identity can be distracting adn impair cognitiv abilities causing performence to suffer; cognitive deficits stemming from concerns about a given id are only found when it is an id that is devalued by the larger culture.

can occur when ppl believe that they might be judged in light of a negative stereotyope about their group or that because of their performance they may in some way confirm a negative stereotype of their group