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29 Cards in this Set
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Affordance
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an opportunity or threat provided by a situation
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Attention
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The process of consciously focusing on aspects of our environment or ourselves
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Automacity
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the ability of a behavior or cognitive process to operate without conscious guidance once it's put into motion
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Attitude
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a favorable or unfavorable evalutaion of a particular person, object, event, or idea
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Chronic Accessibility
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the state of being easily activated, or primed, for use
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Collectivistic culture
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a culture that socializes its members to think of themselves as members of the larger group and to place the group's concerns before their own
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Counterfactual Thinking
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the process of imagining alternative, "might have been" versions of actual events
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Descriptive Norm
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a norm that defines what is commonly done in a situation
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Emotion
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A relatively intense feeling characterized by psysiological arousal and complex cognitions
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Exemplar
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A mental representation of a specific episode, event, or individial
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Goal
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a desired outcome; something one wishes to achieve or accomplish
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Individualistic Culture
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a culture that socializes its members to think of themselves as individuals and to give priority to their personal goals
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Injunctive Norm
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a norm that describes what is commonly approved or disapproved in a situation
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Mood
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a relatively long-lasting felling that is diffuse and not directed toward a particular target
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Motivation
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the force that moves people toward desired outcomes
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Motive
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a high-level goal fundamental to social survival
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Person-situation fit
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the extent to which a person and a situation are compatible
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Plualistic ingorance
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the phenomenon in which people in a group mispercieve the beliefs of others because everyone acts inconsistantly with their beliefs
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Priming
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the process of activating knowledge or goals, of making them ready for use
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reflected appraisal process
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the process through which people come to know themselves by observing or imagining how others view them
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Schema
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a mental representation capturing the general characteristics of a particular class of episodes, events, or individuals
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Scripted situation
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a situation in which certain events are expected to occur ina particular sequence
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Self-concept
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a mental representation capturing our views and beliefs about ourselves
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Self-esteem
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our attitude toward ourselves
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Self-perception process
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the process through which we try to control the impressions people form of us
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Self-Regulation
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the process through which people select, monitor, and adjust their strategies in an attempt to reach their goals
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Social Comparison
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the process through which people come to know themselves by comparting their abilities, attitudes, and beliefs with those of others
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Socialization
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the process whereby a culture teaches its members about its beliefs, customs, habits, and language
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Willpower
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the self-control strength used to overcome counterproductive impulses to achieve difficult goals
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