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social psychology ch 1-5
social psychology; rutgers university
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
02/24/2010

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overconfidence barrier
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people have too much confidence in the accuracy of their judgments
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false alternative
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middle option that will have no effect, makes another option more appealing though its not the right one to pick
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social perception
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process by which we form impressions of and make ingerences about other people
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mirror neurons
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respond when we perform an action and when we see someone else perform the same acton. theyre why we feel empathy
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emblem
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nonverbal gesture that have well-understood definitions within a given culture; ex: OK sign
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affect blend
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one part of the face registers one emotion while another part registers another
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social role theory
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theory that sex differences in social behavior are due to societys division of labot between sexes
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implicit personality theory
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type of schema people use to group various kinds of personality traits together
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attribution theory
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description of the way in which people explain the causes of their own and other people's behavior
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