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Social Psychology
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scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presences of other people.
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Social Influence
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the effect that the words, actions, or mere presence of other people have on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and/or behavior.
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Individual Differences
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the aspects of people's personalities that make them different from other people.
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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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
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a school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behavior, one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment.
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Construal
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the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world.
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Gestalt Psychology
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a school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the 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
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people's evaluations of their own self-worth -- that is , the extent to which they view themselves as good, competent, and decent.
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Social Cognition
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How people think about themselves and the social world, more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions.
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