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the scientific discipline that attempts to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others- Gordon Allport.

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Social psychology

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actual

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everyone disagrees so you suddenly are influenced to join or hate the other group

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when almost doing something bad you imagine your parents yelling at you so you stop.

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o Imagined

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when driving on parkway you see a sign were watching you, you suddenly start to go slower because that implied a cop watching over you

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implied

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a symbol-using social being who can reflect on his or her own behavior

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self

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Interactionism

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an important perspective in social psychology that emphasizes the combined effects of both the person and the situation on human behavior

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Social Cognition

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the way in which we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about our social world.

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acting on impulse, heated actions that fulfill desires

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HOT APPROACH

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cold APPROACH

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peoples actions are principally influenced by the rational analysis of choices facing them in particular situations. Followers of the cold approach assert that how people think will ultimately determine what they want and how they feel.

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the total lifestyle of a people, including all the ideas, symbols, preferences, and material objects that they share.

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culture

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idealogy

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a set of beliefs and values held by the members of a social group, which explains its culture both to itself and to other groups.

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a philosophy of life stressing the priority of individual needs over group needs, a preference for loosely knit social relationships, and a desire to be relatively autonomous of others’ influence. Individuals taking care of themselves and immediate families.

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Individualism

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Collectivism

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a philosophy of life stressing the priority of group needs over individual needs, a preference for tightly knit relationships, and a willingness to submit to the influence of one’s group.

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An approach to psychology based on the principal of natural selection.

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Evolutionary psychology

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Natural Selection

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process by which organisms with inherited traits best suited to the environment reproduce more successfully than less well adapted organisms over a number of generations. Natural selection leads to evolutionary changes.

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the study of the relationships between neural processes of the brain and social processes.

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Social Neuroscience

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evolution

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the genetic changes that occur in a species over generations due to natural selection.