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Week 6 Day I (Monday)
B. Attachment Bonds
- Children can explore better while feeling
comfortable and safe, so it depends on how
attached / dependent they are to their mothers
- Sense of mastem: confidence built by exploration
at asare distana - Strange situation experiment
- mom brings baby into a room full of toys
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- Securely attachedi 60%. of Infants
- balance between closeness/ dependence - showed both distress and excitement
by departure and return of mother
Crespectively) Anxious/Abivalent: 15% of infants
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whine fuss after return - Avoidantly attached: 25% of finfants
-Generas avoid ance shown toward mother
- Indifferent when left alone - Internal working model
- These attachment styles can predict
E from Kindergarten thu-the entire life ... why are they so persistent?
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Day 2 to 6/30/15 B. Cognitive Models of self esteem
- emphasize that how we value ourselves
in vanous domains determines overall Self-esteem
- domains: School, family, friends - Additive models o
-rate yourself on individual personal traits op and simply add them up to get overall
self esteem wodatement - have to be adjusted for how important
that trait is to that person es - some people think being intelligent
is more important than attractiveness
some would disagree. Results in
a Rank-ordering procedure weighted average apertura o - multiply rank-weight by trait Lothar no rating to get a personalized
self esteem measurements - Self-Ideal model: people rate what they'de
prefer to be on each trait, and then the differenca is taken to see how much you differ between
What you want to be and what you are. potn - Rosenburg moderno
- suggests that people wil high self esteem
regard other people as high as well, whereas
people w/ low self-esteem derrogate other - people ble they don't feel threatened by others - based on 10 simple evaluative questions
that are half positive and half negative
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- self-esteem and the certainty of self knowledge
-High self-esteem people are more in clined
to posess clearly defined and temporal 2 statements, than are those w/ low self esteem
-Low SE people show greater changes pulove in self esteem from one day to the next
- Low SE people take consistently longer to enero decide their ratings on each trait
- ligest response time only when regarding a t their own selves
- They show low confidence in the No 2 accuracy of their response
- Low Se also display greater inconsistency
ways in self evaluations than high self-esteem O pe орчлон
- asked about things like "attractiveness anda at and then "unattractiveness but answers
are not parallel on mirroned -High SE people have more confidence in
their self knowledge
C. sociological models of self-esteem a
-If we think that society values us greatly, on then we will have high self esteem
- sociobgical variables affect SE t -occupational prestige, Rave income, education etc
- evidence for this m does not necessarily
Support it
- people who make a lot of money
do not have higher self esteem scores
than those who are very poor - Many credit group pride: minonty groups
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-standing as empowering, and thuso adds to
self esteem : - Sexl Gender differences in SE 220830 t - Research does not show that females
have lower SE than males -However, there are sex differences in evaluations
-mirror cultural stenotypes - women value different traites than males
do, but globally SE Levels are all the same
-Suggested that people are self- stereotyping ... ex " I'm a girl, I must be more sensitive"
-Still, only minor differences on
low levels but not overall - Terror Management theory
-"one of the things it means to be human is
knowing that we will die someday" - Defining feature of human existence is the ability
to contemplate our own death - This inevitable ending creates anxiety and
existential terpor - Cultures function to nullify this fear by
prescribing a way of life that's meaningful valuable, and somehow everlasting
- people will live on thru their children, legacies,
philanthropy, etc. Nor High SE develops among people who feel that
they are living by the guidelines of their culture -How do we deal wl this fear? ito aque
- by getting into from culture on how to
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Ill. Self-esteem D Response to Evaluative feedback
Apeople are given anagram tasks and are told it will demonstrate their intelligence...
-half people are given easy uestions and
are told that makes them very smart, and the other half get harder ones and are told their performance ranks them lower in
intellectual ability rolls - Subjects are then asked about their general
emotional states and how they feel abouy
themselves Chow proud name you of yourself. etc) -Results: To no one's surprise, people who were
told they were more intelligent rated that they were happier
-Success makes people happier than
failure - Low SE people felt significantly worse after
failure than those wl generally nigh SE ad - Difference is 2x that of those wl
low N SE than those wh high SE - Only low SE people feel badly about themselves
after failure. They are more devastated
than people wl nigh SE -Low SE people's feelings about themselves
are more conditional (based on result ic.
failing vs. succeeding) B. Cognitive Responses to failure
- Low SE people may be more inclined to see
things as failure than high SE people
- some people would freak out over a "C" in a course, some people would be thrilled even though its the same performance
-low SE people may also be more inclined to
attribute à failure to a personal trait
- More likely to say they got a "c" because
they're "stupid" instead that the teacher was a tough grader..
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