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Perception
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the active process of selecting, organizing and interpreting people, objects, events and activities.
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Prototype
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are knowledge structures that define the clearest or most representative examples of some category.
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Personal Construct
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is a mental yardstick that allows us to measure a person or situation along a bipolor dimension of judgment.
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Positive Visualization
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a technique used to enhance success in a variety of situations by teaching people to visualize themselfs positively.
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Person-Centeredness
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is the ability to pereceive distinctions between people.
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Culture
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consists of beliefs, values, understandings,
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Social Community
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is a group of people who are part of an overall society.
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Empathy
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the ability to feel with another person, to feel what he or she FEELs in a situation.
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Mind Reading
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means assuming we understand what another person thinks or feels.
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Judgement
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is a belief or opinion that is based on observations, feelings, assumptions or other phenomena that are NOT facts.
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Inference
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is a deduction that goes beyond what you know or assume to be a fact.
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Interpretation
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is the subjective process of creating explanations for what we observe & experience.
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Self-Serving Bias
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are tendencies we construct, attributions that serve our personal interests.
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Selection
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we notice things that stand out or that have changed.
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Stereotype
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is a predictive generalization about a person or situtation.
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Script
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is a sequence of activities that spells out how we and others are expected to act in specific situtations.
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Social Roles
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shape our pereceptions and our communication.
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Attribution
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the act of explaining why someting happens or why a person acts a particular way.
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Constructivism
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is a theory that holds, that we organize & interpet experience by applying cognitive structures...called cognitive schemata (aka schemata).
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Cognitive Abilities
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influence our perception of others.
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