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38 Cards in this Set
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Social cognition |
How people think about themselves and the social world, more specifically, how people say like, interpret, remember and use social information to make judgments and decisions |
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Automatic thinking |
Thinking is not conscious, intentional, and voluntary, and effortless |
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Schemas |
Mental structures people use to organize their knowledge about social world around them or subjects and that influence the information people notice, thinking about, and remember |
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Accessibility |
The extent to which schemas are and at the Forefront of people's minds and are therefore likely to be used, when making judgment about the social world |
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Priming |
The process by which recent experience increases the accessibility of schemas trait or concept |
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Self-fulfilling prophecy |
AK swearing people have an expectation about what another person is like which influences how they act towards that person which causes that person to behave consistently with a person's original expectations making expectation come true |
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Judgemental heuristics |
Mental shortcuts people use to make just as quickly and efficiently |
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Availability heuristic |
A mental rule of thumb whereby people base a judgment on the ease with which they can bring something to mind |
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Representativeness heuristic |
I meant a shortcut whereby people classify something according to how similar it is to a typical case |
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Base rate information |
Information about the frequency of members a different categories in the population |
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Analytic thinking Style |
A type of thinking in which people focus on the properties of objects without considering their surrounding context, this type of thinking is, and Western |
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Holistic thinking Style |
A type of thinking in which people focus on the overall context particularly the ways in which objects relate to each other, this type of thinking is common to East Asian cultures |
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Controlled thinking |
Thinking that is conscious and Country, voluntary, and effortful |
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Counterfactual thinking |
Mentally changing some aspects of the pass as a way of imagining might have been |
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Overconfidence barrier |
The fact that people usually have too much confidence in their accuracy of their judgments |
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Social perception |
The study of how we form Impressions and make inferences about other people |
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Nonverbal communication |
The way in which people communicate, intentionally or unintentionally, without where it's, and nonverbal cues include facial expressions, tone of voice, gestures, body position and movement, the use of touch, and gaze |
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Encode |
To express or emit nonverbal Behavior, such as smiling or patting someone on the back |
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Decode |
Interpret the meaning of the nonverbal Behavior other people Express, such as exciting that a pat-on-the-back was an expression of condensation and not kindness |
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Affect blends |
Facial expressions in which one part of the the face registers one emotion why the other part of the face registers a different emotion |
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Display rules |
Culturally determine rules about which nonverbal behaviors are appropriate to display |
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Emblems |
Nonverbal gestures how are well understood definitions within a given culture, they usually have destroyed verbal translations, such as the OK sign |
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Thin slicing |
Drawing meaningful conclusions about another person's personality or skills based on extremely brief sample of behavior |
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Primary effect |
When it comes to for me Impressions, the first traits we perceive and others influence how we view information that we learn about them later |
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Belief perseverance |
The tendency to stick with an initial judgment even in the face of nutrition that should prompt us to reconsider |
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Attribution theory |
A description of the way in which people explain the causes of their own and other people's behavior |
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Internal attribution |
The inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about that person, such as attitude, character, or personality |
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External attribution |
The inference that person is behaving a certain way because of something about the situation he or she is in; the assumption is that most people would respond the same way is that situation. |
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Covariation Model |
The theory that states that to from an attribution about what causes a person's Behavior, we systematically note the pattern between the presence or absence of possible casual factors and order the behavior occurs |
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Consensus Information |
Information about the extent to which people behave the same way towards the same stimulus and wether the actor does |
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Distinctiveness Information |
Information about the extent to which one particular actor behaves in the same way to different stimuli |
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Consistency Information |
Who is information about the extent to which behavior between one actor and one stimulus is the same across time and circumstances |
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Fundamental attribution error |
The tendency to overestimate the extent to which one person's behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of situational factors |
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Perceptual salience |
Kissimmee importance of information that is the focus of people's attention |
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2 - step attribution process |
Analyzing another person's Behavior first by making an iMac external attribution and only been thinking about possible situation reasons for Behavior comma after which one may understand the original internal attribution |
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Self-serving Attribution |
Explanation for one success the credit turn off, and dispositional factors explanation for one's failures the blame external, situation factors |
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Belief in a Just World |
Former Defense attribution when people assume that bad things happen to bad people and good things happen to good people |
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Bais Blind Spot |
The Tennessee to think the others people are more susceptible to attributional bias is in there thinking than we are. |
