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social psych

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social psychology is the scientific study of the way in which people's _, _ and _ are influenced by the real or imagined __ of ___   show
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what is social psychology (3)   show
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show overestimate, behavior  
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fundamental attribution error is the influence of __ factors is often __   show
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interpretations and inferences made about a stimulus or situation   show
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general knowledge about the world   show
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show behave  
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show fundamental attribution error  
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the influence of situational factors is often discounted   show
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wall street/community game: whether the participants had been identified as likely to cooperate or defect did not help predict their actual levels of __   show
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show ovservational research, archival research, correlational research, experimental research  
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cause and effect is what type of research   show
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key features of experimental research are   show
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show random sampling is ideal  
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a sample in which each person in the population we want to study is equally likely to be picked to participate   show
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more often researchers use a   show
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show external validity  
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show internal validity  
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biggest threat of internal validity is   show
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3 different self relevant concerns   show
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show social  
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who we are or at least who we want to show to other people that we are varies across   show
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collection of beliefs that we hold about ourselves   show
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self concept is __ and _ flexible   show
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show introspection, self perception theory, reflected self appraisail, situations, other people, autobiographical memories  
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show self perception theory  
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social comparison   show
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show autobiographical memories  
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show social comparison theory, festinger 1954  
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show available  
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social comparison theory - __ __ provide most accurate info   show
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show upward, downward, similar  
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show upward  
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someone worse off than one's self   show
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show autobiographical memories, self reference effect  
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show no  
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another origin of self knowledge is   show
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two types of culture   show
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slef is seen as a distinct, autonomous entity, separated from others and defined by individual traits and preferences   show
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show interdependent  
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concerns about the need to see oneself accurately, need to see oneself with consistency, need to improve onself, need for self enhancement to feel good, etc are what type of concerns   show
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show self esteem  
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the positive or neg overall evaluation that each person has of himself or herself   show
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an account of self esteem that maintains that self esteem is __ on success and failures in domains on which a person has based his or her self worth   show
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a hypothesis that maintains that self esteem is an internal, subjective, index or marker of the extent to which a person is included or looked on favorably by others   show
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members of individualistic cultures tend to report __ levels of self esteem than members of collectivistic cultures   show
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show individual  
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many asian languages have no equivalent word for the idea of   show
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self esteems reflects the connection between how we see ourselves and how we want to see ourselves   show
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show self discrepancy theory  
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self serving cognitions   show
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show self serving cognitions  
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show self handicapping  
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show downward  
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show self presentation  
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2 types of self presentation   show
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active attempts to control how others see you   show
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show self verification  
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2 types of self enhancements   show
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show self monitoring  
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show self monitoring  
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try to fit their behavior to the situation   show
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show low self monitors  
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our self concept is made up of three different representations that may be activated at different times.   show
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the three representations are   show
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understanding who we are at the present point in time   show
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show possible self  
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show collective self  
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all three can be influenced by _ and they can be altered or maintained through the process of _ and _   show
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exploration of how people think about themselves and the social world   show
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show themselves, social world  
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show social cognition  
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show form accurate impressions  
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show automatic thinking and controlled thinking  
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quick unintentional involuntary and effortless thinking   show
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effortful and deliberate, pausing to think about self and the environment, carefully selecting the right course of action   show
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show firsthand info, secondhand info  
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info based on personal experience or observation   show
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show secondhand info  
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2 ways to cause misleading firsthand info   show
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show pluralistic ignorance  
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show ideological distortions  
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show bottom up processing  
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show bottom up  
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information processing guided by prior knowledge   show
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information is filtered and interpreted by expectations   show
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mental units that organize our knowledge about the social world (people, ourselves, social roles, and specific events)   show
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schemas help to : __ and make __ of the world , fill in __ of __, act __ when we encounter ambiious or uncertain info   show
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schemas guide __, guide __ and __, influence __ (__ and __)   show
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the extent to which schemas are at the forefront of people's minds and therefore likely to be used in making social judgements   show
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show chronically accessible due to past experience  
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schemas can be accessible because they are related to a __   show
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schemas can be __ accessible because of __ experience, which can be __ or __ - as in __   show
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show modify  
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show perseverance effect  
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show disconfirmatory evidence is presented  
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show perseverance effect  
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show assimilation or accomodation  
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show new data, schema  
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show schema, new data  
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show confirmation bias  
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the tendency to test an idea by searching for evidence that would support it   show
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confirmation bias can lead to false beliefs because people may fail to attend to   show
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show motivated confirmation bias  
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reducing effort in social cognition and judement: _ and _   show
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simple rules we sue for making complex decisions or drawing inferences in a seemingly effortless manner   show
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heuristics can sometimes lead to __ in information processing   show
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what types of biases can heuristics lead to   show
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show the availability heuristic  
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show easy, difficult  
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show availability heuristic  
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show representativeness heuristic  
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show social categories, cause+effect relationship  
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show base-rate neglect  
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show representativeness  
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linda is 31 y.o. single outspoken bright and as student deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice + participated in anti nuclear demonstrations what is the probability that linda is a feminist bank teller   show
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we show greater sensitivity to negative info than to pos info   show
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show negativity bias  
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one consequence of negativity bias is that when people's thoughts wander, they tend to brood over __ events rather than having their thoughts drift to _ events   show
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show counterfactual thinking  
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__ thinking : the easier it is to mentally undo a situation, the stronger the __ to it   show
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counterfactual thinking: reflections on the __, how things might have __ __   show
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things might have turned out better   show
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show downward counterfactual thinking  
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show social perception  
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show easily observable characteristics  
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these influences can influence __ and the __ of others   show
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show nonverbal communication  
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big 5 dimensions   show
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show extraversion, agreeableness  
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show consciousness, openness to experience, and neuroticism  
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drs who were given high ratings of dominance and low ratings of concern/anxiety - based solely on their tone of voice and manner of speaking during the 40sec interval were sig. more likely to be sued   show
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forming impressions from brief interactions or experiences with someone else   show
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thin slicing is a form of   show
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central and peripheral traits   show
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show central and peripheral traits  
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our attempts to answer 'why' about the cause of people's beahviors   show
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we often wonder why people do the things that they do- why did brittney spears get into a car accident   show
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when people make attributions we can explain people's behavior as being caused by   show
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explanations that derive from the person him or herself   show
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show external attributions  
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attributions made by weighing potential causes   show
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show time, place actors and targets  
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covariation information gathered about (3)   show
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do other people act the same way   show
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does he /she act the same way in the same circumstance   show
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does he/she act the same way in the different situations   show
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show her or her date  
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show consesus  
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show consistency  
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show distinctiveness  
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show external  
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for instance a person yelling loudly during a football game - since most people would ( high __) , if the person doesn't yell in other situations (high __), the person yells throughout the game or during other football games (high __)   show
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then assume the person's behavior is a product of   show
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show consensus, distinctiveness, consistency  
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a person laughing at a funeral- since most people wouldn't (__), if the person laughed in other solemn situations (__), the person continued to laugh throughout the funeral/other funerals (__)   show
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show unusual  
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tendency to believe that people's behavior corresponds to (matches) their dispositions (personality)   show
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show fundamental attribution error  
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show fundamental attribution error  
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show overestimate dispositional, underestimate situational  
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show fundamental attribution error  
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causes of fundamental attribution error (4)   show
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show belief in a just world  
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show belief in a just world  
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two step process: first - make quick automatic __ __, second make effor to search for __   show
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when we are distracted tired etc we will often not proceed to   show
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__ describes the fact that we tend to attribute our own behaviors to the situation, but other's behave dispositionally   show
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show self serving bias  
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we tend to take credit for our successes (__) and blame others or the situaition for our failures (_-)   show
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show raider loses- external attribution, new england wins- internal attribution  
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