Social Psychology - Unit 2, Chapters 3 & 5 PDF

+Social Psychology -- Oct 1 Moving into Unit 2 - Chapters 3 and 5 Chapter 3 - Social Cognition Social Cognition - How we think and feeling about ourselves and the people around us. How we organize knowledge in our brains and how it affects how we behave and decisions we make. Schema...

+Social Psychology -- Oct 1 Moving into Unit 2 - Chapters 3 and 5 Chapter 3 - Social Cognition Social Cognition - How we think and feeling about ourselves and the people around us. How we organize knowledge in our brains and how it affects how we behave and decisions we make. Schema - An organized body of knowledge - Self-Schema - Knowledge, you have about yourself, who you are as a person. Beliefs and feelings you have about yourself. - Person Schema - For someone you know quite well, you would have a body of knowledge for that person. Collection of information that you have about that person - Relational Schema - Knowledge, you have about the dynamics between you and another person. You know who you are, you know who the other person is and having the body of knowledge of how that relationship/dynamic is between the two of you. - Demand-withdraw pattern - Studied mostly with married couples. One partner perceives that there is an issue that needs to be delt with in the relationship, the other partner responds with pulling away and not talking/dealing with the issue (not engaging in conversation, withdrawing, walking away). Usually, the wife wanting to talk about it and the husband not wanting too. - The more the demand, the more the withdrawal - Script - Also, an organized body of knowledge, but part of that knowledge is an order in which the events happen. The order in which these events happen - Becomes unconscious knowledge, don't even have to think twice about it - Pryor + Merluzzi (1985) - Relationship scripts. There's a script to how someone would ask someone out on a date. - "Generic Script for 'Getting a Date'" - Are these scripts affected by previous dating/relationship experience. There are no differences in the knowledge of the script based on experience with dating. - Only time dating experience comes into play would be when the script steps are mixed up and participants have to organize them in the right order as fast as they can. People who have a lot of dating experience are faster at putting these script steps back into order - Honeycutt et al. (1989) - Relationship scripts, moving beyond the first date. More steps then the first date scripts. There are 17 steps (other studies have been up to 50 steps). steps include, meeting families, celebrating millstones, moving in together. - Laner + Ventrone (2000) - Follow up on the previous research. Were still mainly the men initiating than the women - Klinkenberg + Rose (1994) (First date scripts) - Looked at scripts for gay men and women. There was a lot of overlap/similarities with the hetero relationships. - Found that the man who initiated the date, he then also initiates everything else (what they did, paying for everything, picking the person up) - With women, there was more discussion about who would do what. - For gay male scripts, the first date would most likely involve having sex then the women scripts. The lesbian women were more likely to include opening up/talking about personal issues more than mens - Simpson + Muise (2022) "I wish there was a guide" - Looked at scripts in all relationship stages during the pandemic. Covid really interfered with peoples' scripts - Not every script is going to be the same across everyone or a perfect match to the script. But there is a lot of similarities in the scripts and their experiences - Holmberg + Mackenzie (2002) - Looked into relationships where the pair had been together for a long time. Then asked them to describe what their scripts would look like. Then asked what the "normal" sequence of what a script looks like in society. Then looked at the health of the relationship (are these good, healthy, well-functioning relationships?) - Two things predicted who was happiest, each partners agreement of their script (associated with being happier) and found that the relationships who followed the typical script "the norm" they were also happier than if your relationship didn't match up to what those "norms" were - Research on scripts on how you break up with someone, how you get someone to "sleep" with you. - There are also different scripts for different relationships (romantic, friendship, family relationships)