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22 Cards in this Set
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social cognition |
how we perceive each other/ourselves process/make meaning about encounters |
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primacy effect |
recall primary information better i.e. - the beginning of a long list of words |
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situational attribution (external)
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blaming something on your situation i.e. - hole in the road popped tire, not my driving |
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dispositional attribution (internal) |
blaming yourself, abilities, mood, attitudes |
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consensus |
agreement on event/area of interest |
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distinctiveness |
uniqueness of event/area of interest |
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consistency |
length of event/area of interest |
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fundamental attribution error |
bias towards dispositional attribution, instead of situational |
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actor/observer |
actor - poor grade on test is the situations fault observer - poor grade on test is the students fault |
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just world principal |
everything happens to restore moral balance |
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self-serving bias |
any perception that is distorted to keep high self-esteem |
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mere-exposure effect |
tendency to enjoy things people are familiar with |
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schema |
concept that helps organize information i.e - cow vs. horse to a young child |
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prejudice |
unjustified attitude based on individuals social group |
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discrimination |
behaviors towards individual social group because of sex/race/gender etc. |
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out-group homogenicity |
people out of my group and that are lesser known are "all the same" |
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conformity |
yielding to group pressures fit in, be correct, or fill social role |
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altruism |
pyschological state of increasing another's welfare |
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social facilitation |
better performance of simple tasks when people are around |
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arousal |
contributes to social facilitation |
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social loafing |
less effort to achieve a goal when involved in a group |
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reciprocity |
responding to positive action with another |
