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14 Cards in this Set
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Spotlight effect
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The belief that others are paying more attention to one's appearance and behavior than they really are.
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Illusion of transparency
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The illusion that our concealed emotions leak out and can be easily read by others
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slef-concept
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A person's answers to the question, "who am I?"
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self-schema
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beliefs about self that organize and guide the processing of self-relevant information.
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possible selves
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images of what we dream of or dread becoming in the future
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medial prefontal cortex
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a neuron path located in the cleft between your brain hemispheres just behind your eyes, seemingly helps stitch together your sense of self
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social comparison
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evaluating one's abilities and opinions by comparing oneself with others
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individualism
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the concept of giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications
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collectivism
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giving priority to the goals of one's groups (often one's extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly
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interdependent self
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construing one's identity in relation to others
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planning fallacy
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the tendency to underestimate how long it will take to complete a task
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impact bias
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overestimating the enduring impact of emotion-causing events
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immune neglect
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the human tendency to underestimate the speed and the strength of the "psychological immune system," which enables emotional recovery and resilience after bad things happen.
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dual attitudes
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differing implicit (automatic) and explicit (consciously controlled) attitudes toward the same object. Verbalized explicit attitudes may change with education and persuasion; implicit attitudes change slowly, with practice that forms new habits.
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