m59: social cognitive theories & exploring self

social-cognitive perspective

behavior as interactions of traits & environ

reciprocal determinism

interaction and mutual influence between individual factors (cognition and behavior) & social factors (environmental influences)

social cognitive theorists focus on sense of

personal control

person control

person’s ability to affect themselves or be affect by environ

social-cognitive theory focuses too much on SITUATION that

we lose appreciation for inner traits (unconscious motives, emotions, biology)

case study

psychoanalytic, humanistic

survey

trait, social-cognitive, positive psych

projective test

psychodynamic

personality inventories

trait

observation

social-cognitive

experimentation

social-cognitive

self

center of personality, organizer of thoughts, feelings, & actions

spotlight effect

overestimate people noticing & evaluating your looks, performance, & mistakes

self esteem

feeling of high or low self-worth

self-efficacy

sense of competence & effectiveness in completing task

self-serving bias

perceive oneself in more favorable ways, make excuses for bad things

narcissim

excessive self-love & self-absorption

individualism

priority to own goals, personal attributes

collectivists

priority to group goals, group identification