Errors PSYCH280

Reflected self-appraisals

Beliefs about ourselves are influenced by how we think other people perceive us.

Self-enhancement motive:

motivation to maintain a positive view of yourself.

Self-verification motive:

Effort to determine if our evaluations of ourselves are consistent with what others believe us to be socially. WANTING OTHERS TO CONFIRM YOUR EXISTING SELF-VIEWS (regardless of +/-)

Anchoring heuristic

judgement influence by starting point (number/1st piece of info).

Adjustment heuristic

Alter our judgment about current event based on starting point.

Attributions

Explanations for why someone behaved a certain way / why event occurred.

Action tendency

Impulse / demonstrated behavior that is associated with an emotion. 4th step of the process.

Social functional theory of emotions

Emotions are important to social functions through influencing interactions and coordinating relationships.

Affect as information

people use feelings as information when attempting to construct judgements.

ideal emotions

emotional states people want/strive to experience

focal emotions

emotions that are frequently experienced within a cultural context.

Suppression

regulating emotional response by inhibiting outward expression of it.

Response modulation

Effort to modify / manage emotional responses after the emotion has been generated and prior to when behavioral / physiological tendencies have begun.

Arousal

ICD: You are bothered by a given event

Negative consequences

ICD: you recognize that there are possible negative consequences to this behavior.

Insufficient justification

You cannot properly justify why you engaged in such behavior.

Sleeper effect

Idea that people are more persuaded by a certain claim over time as they forget the invalid source of the claim itself.