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Chapter 3
CA
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Construal | The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world. |
| Self-esteem | People's evaluations of their own self worth, the extent to which they view themselves as good, competent, and decent. |
| Gestalt Psychology | A school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears in people's minds rather than the objective, physical attributes of the object. |
| Social Psychology | The scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people. |
| Social Cognition | How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social info to make judgments and decisions. |
| Behaviorism | A school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behavior, one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment. |
| Social Influence | The effect that the words, actions, or mere presences of other people have on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behavior. |
| Cult | A temporary religious group who's members are usually people who were in a state of emotional crisis. |
| Hypothesis | An educated guess. |
| Individual Differences | The aspects of people's personalities the make them different from other people. |
| Fundamental Attribution Error | 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. |
| Empirical | Questions that mean their answers can be derived from experimentation or measurement rather tha by personal opinion. |
| Sociology | The study of groups, organizations, and societies, rather than individuals. |
| Personality Psychology | The study of the characteristics that makes individuals unique and different from one another. |
| Distort | A change in perception so that it doesn't correspond to reality. |
| Validity | The state or quality of being valid. |
| Dysfunctional Acts | Cigarette smoking, drunk driving, etc. |
| Hazing | Humiliating and sometimes dangerous initiation rituals to get into groups or programs. |
| Self-fulfilling Prophecy | The prediction of events that do in fact come about, because of one's belief in the prediction and enactment or lack of enactment on that belief. |
| Epidemic | A disease occurring in such a way. |
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