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super ordinate goals

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a goal that takes preedence over one or more conditional goals

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mere exposure effect

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Prefrence for things becasue they are familair with them

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proximity

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the boy next door phenomenom

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equity

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theroy of justice regarding that individual are likely to view as a fair return from actvitaing themselves

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self disclosure

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sharing personal info

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social exchange theory

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recripocity

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attitude

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a set of belief or feeling

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self fulfilling prophecy

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an expectations that causes you to act in ways that makes that expertation come true

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attribution theory

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describes how we tend to explain someone behaviros in terms of either the situation or the persons disposition

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fundemental attribution error

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the tendency to for observer when analyzing another behavior to underestimate the impact of the situation

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actor- observer bias

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a tendency to attribute ones own action to external causes while attributin others personate behavior to internal causes

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collective cultures

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emphasze the needs and goals of the group as whole over the needs and desire of each indivudual

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indivdualistic cultures

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the neeed

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False consensus effect

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the overestimation of the degree to which everybody else thinks or acts the way we do

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postive illusion

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Positive views of the self that are not necessarily rooted in reality

17
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Self-serving bias:

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Tendency to take
credit for our
successes and deny
responsibility for
our failures

18
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Just world bias

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the tendency to think bad things happen
to bad people- so you blame the victim

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blaming the vicitm

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the tendency to think bad things happen to bad people so you blame the victim

20
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cognitive dissonance

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individual’s psychological
discomfort caused by two
inconsistent thoughts

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foot in the door

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Person who agrees to a small request is
later more likely to comply with a larger demand

22
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Door in the Face

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if you refuse large requests then more likely to comply with a smaller one

23
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Low ball technique

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getting a person committed to an act
and then making the terms of acting less desirable

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Norms of reciprocity-

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people think that when someone
does something nice for them they ought to do something
nice in return

25
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agression

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refers to social behavior whose objective is
to harm someone either physically or emotionally

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frustration aggression principel

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the feeling of
frustration makes aggression more likely

27
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hostile aggression

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no clear purpose

28
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instrumental aggression

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an indivudual intentionally acts aggressivly to achieve a paticular purpose

29
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catharsis

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is an emotional release. The term itself comes
from the Greek katharsis meaning “purification” or
“cleansing.”

30
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altruism

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an unselfish
interest in helping another
person

31
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bystander effect

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the tendency of an indivudual who observes an emergency to help less when other peopel are present

32
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diffusion of responsibility

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when people who need to make a decison wait for soemone else to act