Social Beliefs And Judgment

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Priming

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Activating particular association in memory

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belief perseverance

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persistence of one's initial conceptions,as one's belief is discredited but an explanation of why the belief might be true prevails

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Misinformation effect

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Incorporating "misinformation"into one's memory of events after witnessing an event and receiving misleading info about it

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Preconceptions

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strongly influence how interpret and remember events

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memories

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formed when we retrieve them, and subjected to strong influence by attitudes and feelings we hold at the time of retrieval

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controlled processing

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explicit thinking that is delliberate, reflective and conscious

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automatic processing

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implicit thinking that is effortless, habitual and w/out awaarness roughly corresponds to intuition

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subliminal stimuli

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prime thinking and reactions

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overconfidence phenomenon

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tendency to be more confident than correct to overestimate the accuracy of one's belief

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confirmation bias

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tendancy to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions

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heuristic

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a thinking strategy that enables quick efficient judgments

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representativeness heuristic

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tendency to presume sometimes despite contrary odds, that someone or something belongs to a particular groupo if resembling a typical member

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Availability heuristic

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cognitive rule that judges the liklihood of things in terms of their availability in memory.

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counterfactual thinking

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imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that might have happened but iddn't

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illusory correlation

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perception of a relationship where none exists, or perception of a stronger relationship than actually exists

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illusion of control

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locus of control: internal or external.

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regression toward the average

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statistical tendency for extreme scores or extreme behavior to return toward one's average.

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misatrribution

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mistakenly attributing a behavior to the wrong source

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attribution theory

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the theory of how people explain others' behavior

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dispositional attribution

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attributing behavrio to the person's disposition and traitss

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situational attribution

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attributing behavior to the environment

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spontaneous trait inference

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effortless, automatic inference of a trait after exposure to somene's behavior

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fundamental attribution error

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tendency for observers to underestimate situational influences and overestimate dispotisional influences upon others behavior.

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self-awareness

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self conscious state in which attention focuses on oneself. it makes poeple more sensitive to their own attitudes and dispositions.

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self fulfilling prophecy

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belief that leads to its own fulfillment

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behavioral conformation

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type of self-fulfilling prphecy whereby peoples social expectations lead them to behave in ways that cause others to confirm their expectations.