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Social psychology |
The study of how people think about influence and relate to other people. |
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Sterotype |
A generalization about a groups various characteristics that does not consider. |
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Self fulfilling prophecy |
Causes individuals to act in ways that cause expectations to come true. |
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Attribution theory |
The view that people are motivated to discover the underling causes of behavior as part of their effort to make sense of their beahvior. |
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Fundamental attention error |
Observers overestimated of the important of internal tests and underestimate of the important of external situations when they seek explanations of an actors behavior. |
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False concensus effect |
Observers overestimating of the degree to which everybody else thinks or acts the way they do. |
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Posture illusions |
Positive views or the self that are not necessarily rooted in reality. |
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Self serving bias |
The tendency to take credit for our secuccess hut not our failurs. |
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Self onjectitfication |
The tendency to see one self primarily as an object in the eyes of 9ther.s |
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Stereotype threat |
An individual's fast acting self fulfilling fear of being judges based on a negative stereotype about his ie her group. |
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Social comparison |
The process by which individuals evaluate thief thoughts feelings behaviors in relation to other people. |
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Attitudes |
Our feelijgnopionios and beliefs about people objects and ideas. |
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Cognitive dissonance |
An individual's psychological cause by two inconsistent thoughts. |
