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The scientific study of the way in which thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of one individual are affected by the real, imagined, or inferred characteristics or behavior of others is known as:
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Social
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A set of beliefs or expectations about something that is based on past experience is a:
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Schema
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The extent to which the first information we receive about someone influences our impression of that person more than later information is called:
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Primacy Effect
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When the expectations of one person bring about the expected behavior in another person the expectation has become a(n):
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
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A set of characteristics believed to be shared by all members of a social category is a:
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Stereotype
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The tendency to give too much emphasis to personal factors when accounting for other people's actions is called:
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The fundamental attribution error
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The tendancy to explain our successes according to our personal abilities and attribute our failures to forces beyond our control is called:
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Defensive attribution
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Bad things happen to bad people and good things happen to good people, according to:
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The just world hypothesis
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The term psychologists us for how close two people live to each other is:
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Proximity
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Roberta is shy but she falls in love with Peter who is very outgoing. This illustrates the effect of:
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Complementary traits
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Why do we sleep?
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To maintain homeostasis
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What portion of the brain relays and transmits incoming information from our senses except smell?
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The thalmus
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What portion of the brain control reflexive and coordinated movement?
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Cerebellum
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What sort of things can impede memory?
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Interference and time
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What is comprehensive meaning?
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Meaning through a summary or outline, NOT word for word.
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