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22 Cards in this Set
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Psychoanalytic
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Freaud's theory emphasizing unconscious motivation
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Social Role
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Set of social norms about a person in a particular social position should behave
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Interpendence
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Occurs when two or more people influence one anothers feelings, thoughts, or behaviors
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Evolutionary
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Analysis of human behavior in terms of evolution and natural selection
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Socialization
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Process of acquiring the rules, standards, and values of a group.
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Salience
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Attention is drawn to bright, noisy, colorful, unusual, and novel stimuli
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Halo Effect
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A liked person is assumed to have many other good qualities
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Covariation
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Judgments of how strongly two things are related
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Discounting Principle
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Tendency to de-emphasize the role of one particular cause to the extent that other plausable causes exist
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Dual Processing
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People can process information in a careful, systematic fashion or in a more rapid, efficient fashion
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Actor-Observer Bias
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Observers overestimate the importance of an actor's dispositions for causing the actors behavior; actors overestimate the importance of the situation in explaining their own behavior
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Central Trait
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A trait that is associated with many of a persons other characteristics
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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The tendency for peoples expectations to create reality
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Exemplar
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An example of a category that embodies the significant attributes or ideal of the category
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Schema
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An organized system or structure of congnitions about a person, group, place, or things
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Heuristic
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A shortcut for problem solving that reduces complex or ambiguous information to more simple judgemental operations
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Primacy
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Using an initial impression to interpret subsequent information
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Self-Affirmation
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People cope with specific threats to their self-worth by reaffirming unrelated aspects of themselves
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Self-Esteem
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The value one places on oneself
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Self-Concept
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The collection of beliefs we hold about ourselves
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Self-Complexity
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The number of dimensions that people use to think about themselves
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Self-Verification
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Seeking out and interpreting situations that confirm one's self-concept
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