Mission & Method
The variable manipulated by the researcher in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
Broad term for mind, encompassing all psychological processes.
What is psyche?
A motive for self-knowledge seeks feedback that confirms what is already known about oneself.
What is the consistency motive?
In decision making, the greater weight given to possible losses over gains.
What is risk aversion?
Claiming credit for successes while denying blame for failure.
What is the self-serving bias?
The extent to which a study evaluates the intended hypothesis.
What is internal validity?
A new gene or new combination of genes.
What is a mutation?
A measure of how desirable one would be to other people.
What is a sociometer?
In decision making, the greater weight given to the present over the future.
What is temporal discounting?
Tendency for plans to be overly optimistic.
What is the planning fallacy?
Repeating a study to see if the effect is reliable.
What is replication?
The term for practical ways of doing things.
What is praxis?
The tendency for intrinsic motivation to diminish when activity has become associated with rewards.
What is the overjustification effect?
The self's capacity to alter its own responses, also known as "self-control."
What is self-regulation?
Putting obstacles in the way of performance so that a failure can be attributed to something other than ability.
What is self-handicapping?
An individual working covertly with the researcher within an experiment.
What (or who) is a confederate?
Part of the duplex mind which performs complex operations.
What is the deliberate system?
The idea the at people learn about themselves from others reflects this concept.
What is the looking-glass self?
Theory posits that people have an innate need for autonomy.
What is self-determination theory?
Mental tricks people use to help believe things that are not true.
What are self-deception strategies?
Particularly important in an experiment using deception, this informs participants about the study at its conclusion.
What is debriefing?
Information-based system that includes shared ideas and common ways of doing things.
What is culture?
A self-concept emphasizing connections to other people and groups.
What is interdependent self-construal?
This type of theorist would endorse the growth mindset.
What is an incremental theorist?
The finding that information bearing on oneself is processed more deeply and is better remembered.
What is the self-reference effect?