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What is intrapersonal?

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The refers to what occurs within one‘S self. Emotion that occur physically inside their bodies and psychologically in their minds.

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What is interpersonal?

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This refers to the interaction between to or more people in a group. The effects on ones emotions to others.

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What is social and cultural?

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Society refers to the system of relationships between individuals.

Culture refers to meaning and info afforded to the system that is transmitted across generation.

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What is social referencing?

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This refers to the process where individuals look for info from others to clarify a situation.

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What is cultural display rules?

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These are the rules that are learned early in life that specify the management and modification of emotional expression.

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What is emotion?

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An experiential, psychological and behavioural response to a personally meaningful stimulus.

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What is well being?

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The experience of mental and physical health and the absence of a disorder.

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What is emotional fluctuations?

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The degree to which emotions vary or change in intensity over time.

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What is Emotional coherence?

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The degree which emotional responses (subject, experience, behaviour) converge with one another.

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What is social psychology?

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A branch of psych that deals with the presence of others and how it affects our thoughts and behaviors.

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What is the need to belong?

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A strong natural impulse in humans to form social connections and to be accepted by others

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What are levels of analysis/

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Complementary views for analyzing and understanding phenomena.

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What is observational learning?

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Learning from observing others

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What is blind to the research hypothesis?

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When participants are not aware of what is being studied.

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What are attitudes?

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Opinions, feelings about a person concept or group.

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What is stereotyping?

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A mental process of using information shortcuts about a group to navigate social situations.

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What is prejudice?

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An evaluation or emotion toward people is based merely on their group membership.

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What is discrimination?

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Behavior that advantages or disadvantages people based on their group membership.

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What are stigmatized groups?

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A group that suffers from social disapproval based on some characteristic that sets them apart from the majority.

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What is a culture of honor?

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A culture in which personal or family reputation is especially important.

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What is a research confederate?

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A person working with a researcher posing as a research participant or bystander.

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What is social influence?

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When a person causes a change in attitude or behavior in another person, either intentionally or not.

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What is conformity?

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Changing one’s attitude to meet a perceived social norm.

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What is obedience?

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Responding to an order from a person in a position of authority.

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What is reciprocity?
In the act of exchanging goods or services, people feel obliged to give back.
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What is social cognition?
The way people process and apply information about others.
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What is social attribution?
The way a person explains the motives or behaviors of others.
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What is a fundamental attribution error?
The emphasis on another person's personality traits when describing that person's motives and overlooking the influence of situational factors.
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What is a schema?
A mental model that argues the importance of important information about a thing, person, or event.
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What is heuristics?
A mental shortcut or role of thought that reduces complex mental problems to more rule-based decisions.
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What are representative heuristics?
A heuristic in which the likelihood of an object belonging to a category is evaluated based on the extent to which the object appears similar to one mental representation.
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What is the availability heuristic?
A heuristic in which the frequency or likelihood of an event is evaluated based on how easily instances of it come to mind.
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What is planning fallacy?
A cognitive bias in which one underestimates how long a task will take.
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What is affective forecasting?
Predicting how one will feel in the future after some event or decision.
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What is impact bias?
A bias in affective forecasting in which one overestimates the strength or intensity of emotion.
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What is durability bias?
A bias in affective forecasting in which one overestimates how long one will feel emotion.
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What is hot cognition?
Mental processes are influenced by feelings of desire.
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What are directional goals?
The motivation to reach a particular outcome or judgment.
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What is motivaste skeptisim?
A form of bias that can result in which one is skeptical of evidence despite its strength; it goes against what one believes.
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What is a need for closure?
The desire to come to a decision that will resolve ambiguity and conclude an issue.
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What is mood-congruent memory?
The tendency to recall memories that have a mood similar to your current mood.
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What is automatic?
Behavior that is unintentional and uncontrollable.
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What is the Chamelion effect?
The tendency for individuals to non-consciously mimic the postures, mannerisms, and facial expressions of interactional partners.
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What is primed?
A process by which a concept or behavior is made more cognitive accessive or likely to occur through the presentation of an associated concept.
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What is an explicit attitude?
An attitude that is consciously felt and can be reported on by a person holding that attitude.
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What is implicit attitude?
An attitude that a person cannot verbally state.
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An implicit measure of attitudes?
Measure in which researchers infer the participant's attitudes rather than having the participant report it.
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What is implicate association test?
An implicate attitude task that assesses a person's automatic association between concepts by measuring the response time in paring the concepts.
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What is evaluating priming task?
An implicit attitude task assesses the extent to which an attitude object is associated with a positive or negative valence by measuring a person's label of good or bad.
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What is normative influence?
Conformity that results from a concern for what other people think of us.
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What is informational influence?
Conformity that results from a concern to act to a socially approved manner as determined by how others act.
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What are descriptive norms?
The perception of what most people do in a given situation.
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What are blatant biases?
Conscious believes, feelings, or behaviors that people are perfectly willing to admit are mostly hostile and often favor one's, own group.
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What is Social dominance orientation (SDO)?
Describes a belief that group hierarchies are inevitable in all societies and are even good, to maintain stability.
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What is right-wing authoritarianism?
RWA focuses on the values conflicts but endorses respect for obedience and authority in the service group conformity.
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What are subtle biases?
Subtle biases are automatic, ambiguous, and ambivalent, but real in their consequences.
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What are automatic biases?
Are unintended, immediate ab irresistible?
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What is implicate association test (IAT)?
measures relatively automatic biases that favor own group relative to other groups.
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What is social identity theory?
notes that people categorize each other into groups favoring their own group.
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What is a self-categorization theory?
develops social identity theory's point that people categorize themselves along with each other into groups favoring their own group.
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What is the stereotype content model?
This shows that social groups are viewed according to their perceived warmth and competence.

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