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19 Cards in this Set
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Social Psych
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study of the ways in which individuals are affected by social situations.
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Social Situation
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Any event that occurs in a person's environment
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Hindsight Bias
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tendency to exaggerate our ability to have forseen the outcome of an event after the event is over
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Sumner
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1906. wrote "Folkways". Coined term "ethnocenttrism" .
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Cooley
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1916. Wrote "Looking Glass Self". claims our identity comes from others
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Social Representations
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widely held beliefs and values
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Framing
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The way in which an issue is presented or a question is asked. this can influence peoples decisions
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Mundane Realism
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The amount which an experiment is similar to real events
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Experimental Realism
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Amount which an experiment creates its own reality
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Demand Characteristics
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Cues which hint at the desired behavior in experiments
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Priming
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When one stimulus causes an unconscious connection which affects peoples behavior.
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Embodied cognition
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A mutual influence of bodily sensations on social interaction and mental judgements
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Spontaneous Trait Transference
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The way people view you is partially based on how you talk about other people.
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Belief Perseverance
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Though the initial reason for a belief is discredited but the belief survives due to our own explanation .
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Misinformation Effect
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people will incorporate false info into their memory without realizing it
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Rosy Retrospection
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The tendency to recall positive events as being even more positive than they seemed at the time.
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Blindsight
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The ability of people who have lost part o their vision to correctly identify if lines are vertical or horizontal despite not consciously seeing them.
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Illusory correlation
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seeing a relationship where none exists.
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Illusion of control
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the feeling that we have some form of control over chance events
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