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General Psychology Terms and Names

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Fundamental attribution error   The dual tendency of observers to underestimate the impact of situational factors and to overestimate the influence of dispositional factors on a person's behavior.  
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In-group bias   An evaluation of one's own group as better than others.  
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Hindsight Bias   The inclination to see past events as being predictable.  
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Bobo Doll Study   Albert Bandura - violence learned by observation.  
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Illusory Correlation   A situation in which measures of two or more variables are statistically related but are not in fact causally linked— usually because the statistical relation is caused by a third variable.  
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Pump-Handle Intervention   Dr. John Snow- deals with peripheral aspects of the problem. Cuts off things that most directly and visibly supply the problem.  
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Root cause Intervention   Attempts to get directly at the basic Cause of the problem.  
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In-group   The groups with which people identify as members.  
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Just-World Phenomenon   Refers to the tendency for people to believe that the world is "just" and so therefore people "get what they deserve."  
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Fight-or-flight response   A sequence of internal activities triggered when an organism is faced with a threat; prepares the body for combat and struggle or for running away to safety; recent evidence suggests that the response is characteristic only of males.  
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