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Social Psychology |
The scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people. |
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Social Influence |
The effect that the words, actions, or mere presence of other people have on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behavior |
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Fundamental Attribution Error |
The tendency to overestimate the extent to which people's behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of situational factors |
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Behaviorism |
A school os psychology maintaining that to understand human behavior, one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment. |
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Construal |
The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world |
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Gestalt Psychology |
A school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears in people's minds rather than the objective, physical attributes of the object. |
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Self Esteem |
People's evaluations of their own self-worth |
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Social Cognition |
How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgements and decisions |
