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23 Cards in this Set
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Debriefing
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Process that occurs after research is completed, the researcher explains to all subjects their scientific contribution they made by participating.
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Mundane Realism
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The experimental situation resembles the real world.
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False Memory Syndrome
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A memory of a past traumatic event that is objectively false, but that people belived occured.
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Cognitive dissonance
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individual simultaneously holds two cognitions (ideas, attitudes, beliefs, opinions) that are psychologically inconsistent
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Frustration Aggression
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prevented from obtaining a goal
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Heuristic
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A Mental shortcut
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Communal Relationship
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Relationships in which people's primary concern is being responsive to the other person's needs.
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Exchange Relationship
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need for equity between the people involved.
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External Justification
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A person's reason or explanation for his or her behavior
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Internal Justification
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The reduction of dissonance by changing something about oneself.
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Hostile Aggression
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inflicting pain or injury stemming from aggression
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Instrumental Aggression
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Aggression as a means to some goal other than causing pain
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Relational Aggression
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A non-physical form of aggression such as gossiping, spreading false rumors or ostracism
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Companionate Love
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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.
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Gain-loss effect
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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
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Halo effect
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favorable or unfavorable general impression of a person affects our inferences and future expectations about that person
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Prejudice
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A hostile or negative attitude toward a distinguishable group
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Ultimate attribution error
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Making attributions consistent with their prejudices
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Relation Deprivation
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The belief that one fares poorly compared to others
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Hindsight bias
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Once we know the outcome, we are certain we knew it all along.
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Pratfall effect
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Some evidence of fallibility increases the attractiveness of a nearly perfect person.
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Social Cognition
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How people think about themselves and the social world
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Illusory Correlation
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A tendency to see relationships or correlations between events that are actually unrelated
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