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Debriefing
Process that occurs after research is completed, the researcher explains to all subjects their scientific contribution they made by participating.
Mundane Realism
The experimental situation resembles the real world.
False Memory Syndrome
A memory of a past traumatic event that is objectively false, but that people belived occured.
Cognitive dissonance
individual simultaneously holds two cognitions (ideas, attitudes, beliefs, opinions) that are psychologically inconsistent
Frustration Aggression
prevented from obtaining a goal
Heuristic
A Mental shortcut
Communal Relationship
Relationships in which people's primary concern is being responsive to the other person's needs.
Exchange Relationship
need for equity between the people involved.
External Justification
A person's reason or explanation for his or her behavior
Internal Justification
The reduction of dissonance by changing something about oneself.
Hostile Aggression
inflicting pain or injury stemming from aggression
Instrumental Aggression
Aggression as a means to some goal other than causing pain
Relational Aggression
A non-physical form of aggression such as gossiping, spreading false rumors or ostracism
Companionate Love
The feelings of intimacy and affection we feel for another person when we care deeply for the person but do not necessarily experience passion or arousal in his or her presence.
Gain-loss effect
The theory that we like people the most if we feel we have gained in their estimation of us and that we dislike people the most if we feel we have lost their favor
Halo effect
favorable or unfavorable general impression of a person affects our inferences and future expectations about that person
Prejudice
A hostile or negative attitude toward a distinguishable group
Ultimate attribution error
Making attributions consistent with their prejudices
Relation Deprivation
The belief that one fares poorly compared to others
Hindsight bias
Once we know the outcome, we are certain we knew it all along.
Pratfall effect
Some evidence of fallibility increases the attractiveness of a nearly perfect person.
Social Cognition
How people think about themselves and the social world
Illusory Correlation
A tendency to see relationships or correlations between events that are actually unrelated