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What is the branch of psychology that is concerned with the way individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others?
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Social Psychology
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What is the process of forming impressions of others?
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People Perception
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Attractive people are viewed as more intelligent and more friendly. True or false?
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True
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What is an organized cluster of ideas about categories of social events and people?
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Social Schema
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What are widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group?
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Stereotypes
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What is it called when people see what they expect to see, and also the tendency to overestimate how often they see it?
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Subjectivity
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What is it called when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association between social traits than they have actually seen?
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Illusory Correlations
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What is it called when we think people pay more attention to us than they actually do?
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Spotlight Effect
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What is the group that a person belongs to and identifies with?
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Ingroup
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What is the group that a person does not belong to or identify with?
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Outgroup
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What is it called when you blame the person, not the environment?
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Internal Attribution (Dipositional)
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What is it called when you blame the environment, not the person?
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External Attribution (Situational)
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What is it called when an observers' bias is in favor of internal attributions in explaining others' behavior?
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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What is it called when we cut ourselves some slack, but not anyone else?
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Self-Serving Bias
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What is the belief that the world is a "just" place and that bad things only happen to bad people?
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Just World Hypothesis
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What is it called when a person puts personal goals ahead of the group?
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Individualism
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What is it called when a person puts the group ahead of personal goals?
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Collectivism
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What asserts that inter-group hostility and prejudice are a natural outgrowth of fierce competition between groups?
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Group Conflict
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What is the belief that "my way" is better/more superior to others?
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Ethnocentrism
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Us vs. Them Mentality?
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Group I.D.
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What refers to the positive feelings towards another person?
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Interpersonal attraction
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What proposes that males and females of approximately equal physical attractiveness are likely to select each other as partners?
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Matching Hypothesis
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What is the key determinant in romantic relationships?
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Physical Attraction
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What is it called when you like those people who "like" you or flatter you?
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Reciprocity Effect
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