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3rd Exam.
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/04/2011

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Social Psychology
Definition
How we think, our emotions & behavior and human interactions.
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Phonemes
Definition
elementary vowel and consonant sounds that combine to form morphemes.
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Expressive Behavior
Definition
An outward sign that a person is experiencing an emotion.
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Body Restoration Theory
Definition
While Abby Sleeps her body is restoring itself.
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Cognitive Dissonance
Definition
You've ever experienced a disconnect between your internal attitudes and your external behavior.
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Central processing
Definition
A path persuasion that involves paying careful attention to strong, well-presented arguments that are personally relevant and that appeal to reason.
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Hedonic Principle
Definition
An angry toddler hitting his head against the wall.
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Developmental Psychology
Definition
Physical, Cognitive, ans Social changes that we experience through our life spans.
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Cognitive Psychology
Definition
Mental activities associated with sensation, perception, thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
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Morphemes
Definition
The smallest meaningful units that represent the objects, events, ideas, characteristics, and relationships in a languages vocabulary.
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Physiological arousal
Definition
heightened bodily reaction to stimulus
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Expressive behavior
Definition
an outward sign that a person that a person is experiencing an emotion
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Reciprocal altruism
Definition
a theory that suggest that people may carry out altruistic acts with theexpectation of being the recipient of altruism at some point in the future or because they have been helped altruism sometime in the past.
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Central route
Definition
a path to persuasion that involves paying careful attention to strong well presented arguments that are personally relevant and that appeal to reason.
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Peripheral route
Definition
a path to persuasion that involves evaluating an argument based on tangential cues rather than on the arguments merits.
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