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The processes by which people come to understand others is...
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Social cognition
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The process by which we draw inferences about others based on knowledge of the categories to which they belong is...
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Stereotyping
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The tendency for people to see what they expect to see it...
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Perceptual confirmation
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The tendency for people to cause what they expect to see is...
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Self-fulfilling prophecy (filling out race on the exam and black kids perform more poorly than when they didn't fill out their race)
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Stereotype threat is...
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The fear of confirming an observer's stereotype
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The tendency for people who are faced with disconfirming evidence to modify their stereotypes rather than abandon them is...
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Subtyping
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What is the tendency for the frequency of exposure to a stimulus to increase liking called?
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The mere exposure effect
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T/F: According to many studies, approaching someone makes us eager and being approached makes us cautious.
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True
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What are three traits that are generally attractive to people?
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Body shape, symmetry, and age
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