•Definition: a theory that
supposes that
one attempts
to understand behavior of
others by attributing
feelings,
feelings,
beliefs, and intentions to
them.
•Internal: people infer that an event or a
person's behavior
is due to personal factors such as traits, abilities, or
feelings.
•External: attribution, people infer that
a person's behavior
is due to situational factors.
•Definition: the state of having
inconsistent thoughts, beliefs,
or attitudes, especially as
relating to
behavioral
decisions and attitude
change.
•Example: You are pro
environment,
but you
just dropped a piece of trash and didn't pick it up.
•Your behavior is now inconsistent
with your attitude, so know
you feel guilty.
•Definition: drive is an
"excitatory state produced by
a homeostatic disturbance", an
instinctual need that has the
power of driving the behavior
of an individual.
•Achieve
and acquire
•Bond
and Belong
•Challenge
and
comprehend
•Definition: posits that people
determine
their attitudes and
preferences by interpreting the
meaning of their own
behavior
•Example: A student is zoned
out in class
with its ear phones
in playing with his thumbs because he is board. He see
people
pulling out there text books, so he also pulls out his textbook to fit
in with everyone else even though he is not paying any attention
in class.
•Definition: a generalized
description or
a conceptual system for understanding
knowledge-how knowledge is
represented and how it is used.
•Cognitive structure that provides
the
frame for organizing the world and or
intel that we take in.
•Places
•Events
•People
•Definition: a social
psychological
theory that
asserts people want to
be known and understood by
others according
to their firmly
held beliefs and feelings about
themselves, that is self-views
(including self-concepts and self-esteem).
•Example if I saw and think I am a
good husband chances are my
wife will think I am a good husband. If I think I
am a bad husband
chances are my spouse will think I am a bad husband.
•Definition: a social
psychological
and sociological
perspective that explains
social change and stability as
a
process of negotiated
exchanges between parties.
•Explains how we feel about a
relationship
•The
balance between what we put into a relationship
•What
we deserve in a relationship
•Definition: The social penetration theory (SPT)
proposes that, as relationships
develop, interpersonal
communication moves from
relatively shallow, non-
intimate levels to deeper,
more intimate ones.
•Process of increasing disclosure
and intimacy in a relationship
•Starts as small talk nothing
personal , then to very intimate and revealing conversations
•Depth and Breadth
•Depth: Personal Information and
intimacy
•Breadth: Range of disclosure to
another
•Definition: is a person's sense
of
who they are based on their
group membership
•Process that changes
interpersonal
to inter group
behavior
•Privileges the role of a large group identities in forming individuals/ concepts of self.
http://amr.aom.org/content/14/1/20.short
social psychologist Leon
Festinger in 1954, centers on
the belief that there is a drive
within
individuals to gain
accurate self-evaluations.
•Example people evaluate their
own
opinions and abilities, by
comparing to others opinions'
and abilities.
•Three feature of high SCO
•High
Activation of Self; mention more first person nouns
•Strong
interest in what others feel; interdependent
•Uncertainty
of self; low self of steam and or neuroticism
