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Social perception is the study of how we form __ of other people and make __ about them

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Impressions; inferences

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The way in which people communicate, intentionally or unintentionally, without words is known as __

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Nonverbal communication

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What are some examples of nonverbal cues?

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  • Facial expressions
  • Tone of voice - Gestures
  • Body position and movement
  • The use of touch
  • Eye gaze
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What are the primary uses of nonverbal behavior?

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  • Expressing emotion
  • Conveying attitudes
  • Communicating personality
  • Substitution for verbal messages
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According to Charles Darwin, nonverbal communication is universal and not __ specific but __ specific

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Culturally; species

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Recent research in neuroscience has found that humans (and our close relatives, primates) have a special kind of brain cell called __

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Mirror neurons

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What are mirror neurons?

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Respond when we perform an action and when we see someone else perform the same action

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What functions do nonverbal cues serve in terms of communication?

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They help people express their emotions, their attitudes, and their personality

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Much of nonverbal behavior is perceived __

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Automatically

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__ are the most significant channel of

nonverbal communication

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Facial expressions

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Cross-cultural research by Ekman support the universality of at least 6 basic facial expressions of emotion:

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1) Anger
2) Happiness
3) Surprise
4) Fear
5) Disgust
6) Sadness
- Contempt, embarrassment, heroism, pride & shame, and pain have also been added to the list

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A facial expression in which one part of the face registers one emotion while another part of the face registers a different emotion is known as __

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Affect blend

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Culturally determined rules about which emotional expressions are appropriate to show is known as __

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Display rules

i.e. It may be more acceptable for men to display anger than women

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In __ cultures, the expression of strong negative emotions is discouraged because doing so can disrupt group harmony

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Collectivist

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A recent study confirms that the more __ a culture, the more likely it is that the expression of emotion is encouraged

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Individualistic

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Nonverbal gestures that have well-understood definitions within a given culture; they usually have direct verbal translations i.e. “okay” sign, is known as __

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Emblems

- Are not universal; each culture has devised its own emblems

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A type of schema people use to group various kinds of personality traits together is known as __
i.e. many people believe that if someone is kind, he or she is generous as well

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Implicit personality theory

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A description of the way in which people explain the causes of their own and other people’s behavior is known as __

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Attribution theory

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The inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about him or her is known as __
i.e. his or her attitude, character, or personality

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Internal attribution

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The inference that a person is behaving a certain way because of something about the situation he or she is in is known as __
i.e. the assumption that most people would respond the same way in that situation

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External attribution

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All humans encode or __ emotions in the same way

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Express

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All humans can decode or __ emotions with equal accuracy

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Interpret

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What is the covariation model?

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It states that you will systematically examine multiple instances of behavior, occurring at different times and in different situations
i.e. You ask friend A to lend you their car, they say no, naturally you wonder why: Do they lend it to other people? Have they refused to lend you their car in the past? etc.

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What are the three key types of information when we are forming an attribution?

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1) Consensus
2) Distinctiveness
3) Consistency

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Information about the extent to which other people behave the same way as the actor does toward the same stimulus is known as __

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Consensus information
i.e. Subject = Tom. Behavior = Laughter
Everybody in the audience is laughing; consensus is high. If only Tom is laughing, consensus is low

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Information about the extent to which one particular actor behaves in the same way to different stimuli is known as __

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Distinctiveness information
i.e. Subject = Tom. Behavior = Laughter
Tom only laughs at this comedian; distinctiveness is high. If Tom laughs at everything, distinctiveness is low

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Information about the extent to which the behavior between one actor and one stimulus is the same across time and circumstances is known as __

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Consistency information
i.e. Subject = Tom. Behavior = Laughter
Tom always laughs at this comedian; consistency is high. If Tom rarely laughs at this comedian, consistency is low

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People are most likely to make a(n) __ attribution, when the consensus and distinctiveness of the act are low, but consistency is high

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Internal

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People are most likely to make a(n) __ attribution if consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency are all high

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External

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When consistency is low, we cannot make a clear OR external attribution and so resort to a special kind of external or __ attribution

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Situational

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The tendency to infer that people’s behavior corresponds to or matches their disposition (personality) is known as __

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Correspondence bias

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Information that is the focus of people’s attention; people tend to overestimate the causal role of perceptually salient information is known as __

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Perceptual salience

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__ is when we make an internal attribution; we assume that a person’s behavior was due to something about that person. Then, in the second step, we attempt to adjust this attribution by considering the situation the person was in (but we don’t often make enough of an adjustment in this second step)

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Two-step process of attribution

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__ cultures emphasize group membership, interdependence, and conformity to group norms

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Collectivist

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The tendency to see other people’s behavior as dispositionally caused, while focusing more on the role of situational factors when explaining one’s own behavior is know as __

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Actor/observer difference

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Explanations for one’s successes that credit internal, dispositional factors and explanations for one’s failures that blame external, situational factors is known as __

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Self-serving attributions

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Explanations for behavior that avoid feelings of vulnerability and mortality is known as __

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Defensive attributions
i.e. When a woman blames another women who was raped. A person may place responsibility on the victim in order to reduce the worry that the same situation could happen to them “She was asking for it because she was dressed inappropriately”

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A form of a defensive attribution wherein people assume that bad things happen to bad people and that good things happen to good people is known as __

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Belief in a just world

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__, is to express or emit nonverbal behavior, such as smiling or patting someone on the back

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Encode

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__, is to interpret the meaning of the nonverbal behavior other people express

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Decode

i.e. deciding that a pat on the back is an expression of condescension and not kindness

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What is meant by social emotions? How do they differ from some of the basic emotions?

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i.e. contempt, shame, embarrassment, jealousy, envy

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Why might facial expressions sometimes be hard to interpret accurately?

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  • People try to appear less emotional than they are

- People may display blends of multiple affects simultaneously

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__ norms can influence display of emotions

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Cultural

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People from Western cultures tend to have a(n) __ thinking style

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Analytic

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People from East Asian cultures tend to have a(n) __ thinking style

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Holistic

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Focusing on the properties of objects/people without considering the surrounding context is known as __

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Analytic thinking style

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Focusing on the whole picture, i.e., the person/object AND the surrounding context is known as __

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Holistic thinking style

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Picture of a happy facial expression: spontaneously activity of the __ muscles

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Zygomaticus major

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Picture of an angry facial expression: spontaneously activity of the __ muscle

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Currugator supercilli

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Exposure to emotional facial results in __ activity of emotion relevant facial musles (as measured by EMG)

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Spontaneous

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__ EMG activity (without conscious cognitive control) supports argument for a biological basis for facial expressions of emotion

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Automatic

52
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The contents of the self; that is, our knowledge about who we are is known as __

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Self-concept

53
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The act of thinking about ourselves is known as __

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Self-awareness

54
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Miscontruals regarding the thoughts and motives of others is known as __
i.e. perceive another as unfriendly, therefore don’t attempt friendliness

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Pluralistic ignorance

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Researchers have used a variation of the rouge test with humans and found that self-recognition develops at around __ years of age

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Two

56
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An organized body of knowledge about the self (i.e., attitudes, preferences, traits) that influences what people notice, think about, and remember about themselves is known as __

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Self-schemas

57
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The tendency for people to remember information better if they relate it to themselves is known as __

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Self-reference effect

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__, which is defining oneself in terms of one’s relationships to other people and recognizing that one’s behavior is often determined by the thoughts, feelings, and actions of others

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Interdependent view of the self

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__ is defined as the extent to which knowledge about the self is stable, and clearly and consistently defined

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Self-concept clarity

60
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Women’s self-concepts reflect more __ interdependence, meaning that they focus more on their close relationships

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Relational

61
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Men tend to define themselves in terms of social groups, such as the sports teams to which they belong, is known as __ interdependence

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Collective

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__ is known as looking inward, examining the “inside information”, only you have about your thoughts, feelings, and motives

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Introspection

63
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The idea that when people focus their attention on themselves, they evaluate and compare their behavior with their internal standards and values

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Self-awareness theory

64
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__ is viewing themselves through the eyes of other people, whereas __ is focusing on their own private experiences without considering how other people see them

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Outside perspective on the self; insider perspective on the self

65
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__ is the theories about the causes of one’s own feelings and behaviors; typically, we learn such theories from our culture i.e. “absence makes the heart grow fonder”

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Causal theories

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__ is the theory that when our attitudes and feelings are uncertain or ambiguous, we infer these states by observing our behavior and the situation in which it occurs

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Self-perception theory

67
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__, is the idea that we see ourselves through the eyes of other people and incorporate their views into our self-concept

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Looking-glass self

68
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The idea that we learn about our own abilities and attitudes by comparing ourselves with other people is known as __

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Social comparison theory

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The process whereby we compare ourselves with people who are worse than we are in a particular trait or ability is known as __

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Downward social comparison

70
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The process whereby we compare ourselves with people who are better than we are in a particular trait or ability is known as __

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Upward social comparison

71
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The theory that we become distressed when our sense of who we truly are (our actual self) is discrepant from our personal standards or desired self-conceptions is known as __

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Self-discrepancy theory

72
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An unrealistically positive view of oneself is known as __

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Self-enhancement

73
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The tendency is to hold a negative view of oneself is a phenomenon known as __

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Self-effacement

74
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__ is a theory suggesting that people have a need to seek confirmation of their self-concept, whether that self-concept is positive or negative

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Self-verification theory

75
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Any act performed with the goal of benefiting another person is known as __

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Prosocial behavior

76
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What is the purpose of mimicry?

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Shared state, alignment facilitates communication, and social bonding -> prosocial behavior

77
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__ is when perception causes similar behavior, and perception of similar behavior creates shared feelings of empathy and rapport

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Chameleon effect

78
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What is construal?

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The way in which people perceive, comprehend and interpret their social world

79
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__, is a tendency to overestimate the extent to which people’s behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of situational factors

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Fundamental attribution error

80
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Snap judgments are okay for others, but not for self, is known as __

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Interpersonal knowledge

81
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What is social psychology?

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The scientific study of the way in which people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people

82
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What is construal?

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The way in which people pereive, comprehend and interpret their social world

83
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The aspects of people’s personalities that make them different from other people is known as __

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Individual differences

84
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People’s evaluations of their own self-worth is known as __

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Self-esteem

85
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__ is when we may alter our recollections of past actions of which we are unhappy or ashamed, in order to feel good about our past actions and decisions

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Self-justification

86
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How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information is known as __

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Social cognition

87
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__, is the case whereby people have an expectation about what another person is like, which influences how they act toward that person, which in turn, causes that person to behave consistently with their original expections

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

88
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What are the two major construals?

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1) The need to maintain a positive view of ourselves

2) The need to view the world accurately

89
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What is the social cognition approach?

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The incorporation of human cognitive abilities into theories of social behavior
i.e. reasoning abilities, decision-making, judgments about others, explanations of others’ behavior etc.

90
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What is the evolutionary approach?

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Incorporates Darwin’s theory of natural selection into explanations of behavior and mental processes

91
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What is evolutionary psychology?

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Attempts to explain social behavior and cognitive abilities in terms of genetically-based traits (adaptations) that were naturally selected in our distant past
i.e. theories of prosocial and aggressive behavior, and of interpersonal attraction

92
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What are the three types of methods (in research methods)?

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1) Observational (descriptive)
2) Correlational (description)
3) Experimental (causality)

93
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A testable statement about the relationship between two or more variables is known as a(n) __

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Hypothesis

94
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__ is the tendency for people to exaggerate how much they could have predicted the outcome after knowing that it occurred

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Hindsight bias

i.e. “I knew it all along”

95
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The precise specification of how variables are measured or manipulated is known as a(n) __

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Operational definition

96
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What are the three types of methods (in research methods)?

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1) Observational (descriptive)
2) Correlational (description)
3) Experimental (causality)

97
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The need to be accurate and the need to feel good about ourselves is known as __

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Human motives

98
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__ is the tendency for people to exaggerate how much they could have predicted the outcome after knowing that it occurred

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Hindsight bias

99
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__ is the technique whereby a researcher observes people and systematically records measurements of their behavior

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Observational method

100
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__ is the method by which researchers attempt to understand a group or culture by observing it from the inside without imposing any preconceived notions they might have

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Ethnography

101
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__, which is the level of agreement between two or more people who independently observe and code a set of data. By showing that two or more judges independently come up with the same observations, researchers ensure that the observations are not the subjective impressions of one individual

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Interjudge reliability

102
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A form of the observational method whereby the researcher examines the accumulated documents, or archives, of a culture
i.e. diaries, novels, etc.

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Archival analysis

103
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__ is the technique whereby researchers systematically measure two or more variables and assess the relation between them
i.e. how much one can be predicted from the other

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Correlational method

104
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__ is a statistic that assesses how well you can predict one variable based on another
i.e. how well you can predict people’s weight from their height

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Correlation coefficient

105
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__ correlations indicate that an increase in one variable is associated with an increase in the other

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Positive

106
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__ correlations indicate that an increase in one variable is associated with a decrease in the other

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Negative

107
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Research in which a representation sample of people are asked questions about their attitudes or behavior is known as __

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Surveys

108
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__ is the method in which the researcher randomly assigns participants to different conditions and ensures that these conditions are identical except for the independent variable (the one thought to have the causal effect on people’s responses)

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Experimental method

109
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__ is ensuring that nothing other than the independent variable can affect the dependent variable; by controlling all extraneous variables and by randomly assigning people to different experimental conditions

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Internal validity

110
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__ is the extent to which the results of a study can be generalized to other situations and to other people

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External validity

111
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__ is the extent to which an experiment is similar to real-life situations

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Mundane realism

112
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__ is the extent to which the psychological processes triggered in an experiment are similar to psychological processes that occur in everyday life

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Psychological realism

113
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__ is a(n) statistical technique that averages the results of two or more studies to see if the effect of an independent variable is reliable

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Meta analysis

114
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__ is investigation based on intellectual curiosity - to understand reasons “why” or “how” for a type of behavior

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Basic research

115
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__ involves studies designed to solve a particular social problem. Building a theory of behavior is usually secondary to solving the problem

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Applied research

116
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__ motivation is the desire to engage in activity because one finds it interesting

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Intrinsic

- internal: associated with persistence, maintained interest, greater satisfaction

117
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__ is the desire to engage in activity because of reward of pressures

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Extrinsic

- external: greater tendency to lose interest, satisfaction

118
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__ are mental structures used to organize knowledge about the social world

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Schemas

119
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__ is the extent to which schemas and concepts are at the forefront of people’s minds and are therefore likely to be used when making judgments about the social world

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Accessibility

120
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__ is the process by which recent experiences increase a schema or trait’s accessibility

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Priming

121
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Mental shortcuts people use to make judgments quickly and efficiently is known as __

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Judgmental heuristics

122
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A mental shortcut whereby people base a judgment on the ease with which they can bring something to mind

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Availability heuristic

123
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A mental shortcut whereby people classify something according to how similar it is to a typical case

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Representativeness heuristic

124
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Information about the frequency of members of different categories in the population is known as __

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Base rate information

125
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__ is mentally changing some aspect of the past as a way of imagining what might have been

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Counterfactual thinking

126
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__ is the attempt to avoid thinking about something a person would prefer to forget

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Thought suppression

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