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33 Cards in this Set
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Affect Illusion Model
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Theory explaining how affect influences social thought and social jugdements
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Nonverbal Communication
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An unspoken language of facial expressions, eye contact,and body language.
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Unrealistic Optimism
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The tendency to beleive that we are more likey to experience posative life events and less likely to expeirience negative life events then simular others
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Planning Fallacy
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The tendency to make optimistic predictions concernincg how long a given task will take
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Counterfactual Thinking
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The tendency to evaluate events by thinking about alternatives to them. the more readily the altenatives come to mind the stronger our reactions to the events that actully occurred
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Automatic Vigilance
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The strong tendency to pay attention undessirable or negative information
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Discounting Principle
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the tendency to attach less importance to one potential cause of some behavior when other potential causes are also present
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Information Overload
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Instances in which our ability to process imformation is exceeded
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Mood -Congruent Jugdement Effect
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The finding that there is often a good match between our current mood and the social judgements that we make
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False Consensus Effect
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The tendency to assume that others think or behave to a greater extent then is actually true
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Attribution
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The process through which we seek to identify the causes of others behavior and so gain knowledge of their stable traits and dispotions.
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Augmenting Principle
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The tendency to attach greater importance to a potential cause of behavior if the behavior occurs despite despite the presence of other , inhibitory causes
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Representativeness Heuristic
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a strategy for making judgements based on the exstent to which current stimuli of events resemble ones we veiw as being typical
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Avaliability Heuristic
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A strategy for making judgements on the bias of how easily specific kinds of imformation that can be readily remembered is veiwed as more prevelent or important than imformation that cannot be readily remembered
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Base Rate Fallacy
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The tendency to ignor or underuse information relating to base rates- the relative frequency with which conditions events, or stimuli actully occur
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Impression Formation
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The process thruogh which we form impressions of others
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Social Cognition
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The process through which we recall , interpert, reason, and make jugdements about others. Social cognition is concerned with the use and manipulation of social imformation.
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Cognative Biases
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Systematic tendencies towards bias in our social cognative processes, involving selective attention and processing of social imformation
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Priming
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Occurs when stimuli or events increase the avaliablity of specific types of imformation in the memory
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Self-serving Bias
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the tendency to attribute posative outcomes in one's own life to inturnal causes but negative causes to exturnal causes.
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Noncommon Effects
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Effects produced by a particular cause that could not be produced by any other apparent cause
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Consistency
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The extent to which an individual responds to a given stimulus or situation in the same way on different occasions.(i.e. across time)
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Impression Management(self presentation)
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Techniques designed to create a favorable impression of oneself in others (target persons)
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Distinctiveness
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The extent to which an individual responds in a similar mannor to different stimuli or different situations
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Schemas
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Organized collections of beliefs and feelings about some aspect of the world . schemas operate like scaffolds providing structure for the interpretation and organization of new information we encounter
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Heuristics
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Rules or princilpes that allow individuals to make social judgements rapidly and with reduced effort
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Automatic Priming
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The effect that occurs when stimuli of which individuals are not consciously aware act as primers
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Fundimental Attribution Error
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the tendecy to overestimate the impact of dipositional (internal)causes on others behavior .
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Body Language
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Cues provided by the potion , posture ,and movement of of people's body or body parts
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Staring
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Eye contact in which one person continues to gaze steadily at another regaurdless of what the other does.
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Social Perception
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The process through which we seek social imformation, form impressions about athers and register and encode that information in our minds.
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Concencus
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The extent to which actions by one person are also shown by others.
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Actor-observer effect
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The tendency to attribute our own behavior mainly to situational causes but the behavior of other s to mainly to internal(dispostional causes).
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