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UHC Chapter 2 (Key Ideas: (We cling to first impressions even if wrong.…
UHC Chapter 2
Key Ideas:
We cling to first impressions even if wrong. First impressions lead to forming an opinion about someone regardless of how well you know them and can influence the way you think of them forever.
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Self-fulling prophecy where your own expectations influences your behavior can be both negative and positive.
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Terms:
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Reflected Appraisal: influence of others on one's self-concept; describes how we develop an image of ourselves from the way we think others view us
Self-serving Bias: the tendency to interpret and explain information in a way that casts the perceiver in the most favorable way.
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Experience:
There has been times where I was self-conscious of the way I look because of reflected appraisal. It's like when I have a pimple that I think everyone is looking at but in reality no one really notices it.
A self-serving bias experience I had was when I heard my parents yelling at my little sister for not washing the dishes and I laughed it off, but when it was my turn to get in trouble I made excuses of being too busy just to let myself get away with it.
I've had many self-fulling prophecy experiences but the one that affected me most was my anxiety before a standardized test and thinking that I'd do very poorly on the test. I received the scores and most definitely received a bad score.
Examples:
Self-fulling prophecy: "A friend describes someone you're about to meet, saying that you wouldn't like the person, the prediction turned out to be true."
Identity management: "Somebody is watching me eat this salty sandwich, so i will make a face."
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Questions:
What surprised me was how it mentions that we "strive to construct multiple identities" I'd like to think that I have one and only one identity because too many would make me "fake" but subconsciously we create different identities depending on who we are talking to.
What bothered me most is "we tend to favor negative impressions over positive impressions." As much as I hate that, that is true, I don't want to believe that it is. It's sad to think that we tend to think more negatively about something or someone rather than the good in people. We are allowing ourselves to make it easy for us to dislike someone than to look at their good qualities.
I want to learn more about how we can manage our impressions. Impressions seem to be uncontrollable, but if there are ways for us to manage our impressions to make it more positive, I would like to know more about it.
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