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| The force that moves people tooward desired outcomes. |
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| A desired outcome; something one wishes to achieve or accomplish |
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| A high-level goal fundamental to social survival. |
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| The process of consciously focusing on aspects of our environment or ourselves. |
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| The ability of a behavior or cognitive process to operate without conscious guidance once it's put into motion. |
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| The self-control strenght used to overcome counterproductive impulses to achieve difficult goals. |
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| A mental representation of a specific episode, event, or individual. |
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| A mental representation capturing the general characteristics of a particular class of episodes, events, or individuals. |
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| The process of activating knowledge or goals, of making them ready for use. |
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The state of being easily activated, or primed, for use. |
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| A favorable or unfavorable evaluation of a particular person, object, event, or idea. |
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| A relatively intense feeling characterized by physiological arousal and complex cognitions. |
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| A relatively long-lasting feeling that is diffuse and not direct toward a particular target. |
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| The process of imagining alternative, "might have been" versions of actual events. |
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| A mental representation capturing our views and beliefs about ourselves. |
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| Our attitude toward ourselves. |
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| The process through which people come to know themselves by compairing their abilities, attitudes, and beliefs with those of others. |
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| Reflected apprasial process |
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| The process though which people come to know themselves by observing or imagining how others view them. |
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| The process though which people observe their own behavior to their internal characteristics such as traits, abilities, and attitudes. |
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| The process through which people select, monitor, and adjust their strategies in a nattempt to reach their goals. |
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| The process through which we try to control the impressions people form of us. |
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| An oppertunity or threat provided by a situation. |
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| A norm that defines what is commonly done in a situation. |
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| The phenomenon in which people in a group mispreceive the beliefs of others because everyone acts inconsistently with their beliefs. |
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| A norm that describes what is commonly approved or disapproved in a situation. |
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| A situation in which certain events are expected to occur in a particular sequence. |
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| A culture that socilizes its members to think of themselves as individuals and to give priority to their personal goals. |
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| A culture that socializes its members to think of themselves as members of the larger group and to place the group's concerns before their own. |
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| The extent to which a person and a situation are compatiable. |
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| The process whereby a culture teaches its members about its beliefs, customs, habits, and language. |
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