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70 Cards in this Set
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Perception
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The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting data from our senses
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Sensory Acuity
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The level of sensitivity of our senses
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Schemas
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Mental frameworks that create meaningful patterns from stimuli
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Prototype
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Best example of something
ex. Boss from hell, Best friend |
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Stereotype
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A generalization about a group or category of people
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Script
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A predictable sequence of events that indicates what we are expected to do in a given situation
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Attributions
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Assigning causes to behavior
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Self-Concept
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The sum total of everything that encompasses the self-referential term "me".
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Muscle Dysmorphia
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A preoccupation with one's body size and a perception that, though one is very muscular, one actually looks puny.
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The regulations that covers facilities handling oil, NLS and garbage is ___
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33 CFR 158
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Reflected appraisal
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Messages you reeice from others that assess your self-concept
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Social comparison
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Evaluating yourself by comparing yourself to other people.
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Contingencies of self-worth
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What is perceived as most important to you feeling good about yourself
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Self-serving bias
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The tendency to attribute our successful behavior to ourselves.
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Self-disclosure
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The process of purposely revealing to others personal information about yourself that is significant and that others would not know unless you told them.
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Breadth
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The range of subjects discussed
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Depth
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How personal you become when discussing at particular subject.
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Primary effect
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The tendency to be more influenced by initial information about a person than by information gathered later.
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Negativity bias
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Our strong tendency to be influenced more heavily by negative than positive information.
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Fundamental attribution error
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Overemphasizing personal traits and underemphasizing situations as causes of other peoples behavior
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Prejudice
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A negative feeling about members of a group
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Discrimination
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Any behavior that manifests negative prejudice feelings.
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Hostile sexism
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Antipathy toward women who are viewed as usurping men's power.
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Selective memory bias
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When we tend to remember information that supports our stereotypes but forget information that contradicts them.
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Stereotype vulnerability
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A percieved threat from apprehension that a person will be evauluated based on a negative stereotype.
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
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Acting on an erroneous expectation that produces the expected behavior and confirms the original impression.
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Superordinate goal
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One that require mutual effort by both groups to achieve a desired end
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Virtual groups
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Small groups whose members rarely interact face to face and who mostly communicate by using electronic technology.
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Culture
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A learned set of enduring values, beliefs, and practices that are shared by an identifiable, large group of people with a common history
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Values
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The most deeply felt, generally shared view of what is deemed good, right, or worthwhile thinking or behavior
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Beliefs
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What a person thinks is true or probable.
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Co-culture
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A group of people who live in a dominant culture yet remain connected to another cultural heritage.
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Value dimensions
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Varying degrees of importance placed on those deeply felt views of what is right, good, and worthwhile.
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Individualist culture
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Has a "me" consciousness
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Collectivist culture
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Has a "we" consciousness
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Socializations
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The communication of shared cultural practives, beliefs, and values from generation to generation.
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Low-context communication style
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Verbally precise, direct, and explicit.
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High-context communication style
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Uses indirect verbal expression
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Power-distance dimension
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Variations in the acceptability of unequal distribution of power in relationships, institutions and organizations.
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Low-PD culture
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Values relatively equal power sharing and disccourages attention to status differences and ranking in society.
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High PD cultures
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Have a relatively strong emphasis on maintaining power differences.
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Ethnocentrism
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The notion that ones own culture is superior to any other
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Cultural relativism
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View cultures as merely different, not deficient.
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Multiculturalism
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Social-intellectual movement that promotes the value of diversity as a core principle and insists that all cultural groups be treated with repect and as equals
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Mindfulness
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Thinking about our communication with others and persistently working to improve it.
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Acculturation
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The process of adapting to a culture different from one's own.
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Acculturative stress
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The anxiety that comes from the unfamiliarity of new cultural surroundings, rules, norms, and practices and the attempt to adapt to these new circumstances.
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Divergence
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Differences that separate people
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Convergence
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Similarities that connect us to others
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Gender role stereotypes
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Set of expectations defined by each culture that specifies what is appropriate behavior for men and women.
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masculine-feminine dimension
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Intersection of gender and culture apparent from gender role stereotypes serces as the basis for a third deep structural value.
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Masculine culture
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Exhibits stereotypic masculine traits such as male dominance, abmbitiousness, assertiveness, competitiveness, and drive for achievement.
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Feminine culture
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Exhibits stereotypic feminine traits such as affection, nurturance, sensitivity, compassion, and emotional expressiveness.
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Gender differrences hypothesis
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Men and women communicate in vastly divergent ways
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Compliant sex
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Haveing sexual intercourse when you dont want to, but your partner does.
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Emotionally restrictive
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Having difficulty and fears about expressing ones feelings and difficulty finding words to express basic emotions.
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Gender similarities hypothesis
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That gender differences in communications are NOT significant
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Language
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Structred system of symbols for communicating
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Grammar
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The set of rules that specify how the units of language can be meaningfully combined
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Phonemes
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Individual unites of sound that compose a specific spoken language
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Phonology
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Part of grammar that describes the patterns of sound in a language
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Morpheme
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The smallest unit of meaning in language
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Morphology
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Part of grammar that describes how morphemes are constructed.
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Syntax
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Govern combining words into phrases and phrases into sentences.
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Semantics
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The set of rules that governs the meaning of words and sentences.
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Symbols
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Arbitrary representations of objects, events, ideas, or relationships.
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Referents
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The objects, events, idea,s or relationships referred to by the words
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Lexicon
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total vocabulary
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Productivity
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Transform a small number of phonemes into whatever words, phrases, and sentences that you require to communicate your abundance of thouts and feelings with
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Displacement
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Use language to talk about objects, ideas, events and relations that dont just exist in the physical here.
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