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| The effect that words, actions, or mere presence of other people have on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behavior |
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| 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. |
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| The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world |
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| The aspects of people's personalities that make them different from other people |
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| A school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behavior, one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment |
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| 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--the whole is different from the sum of its parts |
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| How people think about themselves and the social world. How people select, interpret, remember and use social information to make judgments and decisions |
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| The tendency for people to exaggerate how much they ould have predicted an outcome after knowing that it occured |
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| The technique whereby a researcher obseves people and systematically recores measurements or impressions of their behavior |
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| A form of observational method in which the observer interacts with the people being observed but tries not to alter the situation in any way |
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| The levelof agreement between two or more people who independently abserve and code a set of data |
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| A form of the observational method in which the researcher examines the accumulated document or archies of a culture |
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| The technique whereby two or more variables are systematically measured and the relationship between them is assessed |
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| A statistical technique that assesses how well you can predict one variable from another |
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| The method in which the researcher randomly assigns participlants to different conditions and ensures that these conditions are identical except for the independent variable |
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| Making sure that nothing besides the independent variable can affect the dependent variable, this is accomplished by controlling all extraneous variables |
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| The exten to which the results of a study can be generalized to other situations and to other people |
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| The exten to which the results of a study can be generalized to other situations and to other people |
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| the extent to which an experiment is similar to real-life situations |
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| The extent to which the psychological processes are triggered in an experiment are similar to psychological processes that occur in everyday life |
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| A stat. technique that averages that results of two or more studies to see if the effct of an independent variable is reliable |
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| Studies that are designed to find the best answer to the question of why people behave as they do and that are conducted purely for reasons of intellectual curiosity |
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| Studies designed to solve a particular problem |
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| Mental structures people use to organize their knowledge about the social world around themes or subjects and that influence the information people notice, think about, and remember |
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| The extent to which schemas and concept are at the forefront of peole's minds and are therefore likely to be used when we are making judgments about the social world |
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| The process by which recent experiences increase the acessibility of a schema, trait or concept |
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| The finding that people's beliefs about themselves and the social world persist even after the evidence supporting these beliefs is discredited |
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| People have an expectation about what abother person is like, influences how they act toward that person, which causes that person to behave consistently with people's original expectations, making the expectations come true |
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| Mental shortcuts people use to make judgments quickly and efficiently |
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| A mental rule of thumb whereby people base a judment on the ease with which they can bring something to mind |
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| A mental shortcut whereby people classigy something accoriding to how similiar it is to a typical case |
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| Information about the frequency of member of different categories in the population |
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| Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristic |
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| Shortcut where people use a number or value as a starting poin and then adjust insufficiently from this anchor |
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| Thinking that is conscious, intentional, voluntary, or effortful |
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| Mentally changing some aspect of the past as a way of imagining what might have been |
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| The fact that people usually have too much confidence in the accuracy of their judgments |
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