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| The process of selectively attending to information and assigning meaning to it |
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| A set of characteristics used to differentiate some things from others |
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| Assigning meaning to information |
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| Your over all evaluation of your competence and personal worthiness |
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| A pattern of learned behaviors that people use to meet the perceived demands of a particular context |
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| The internal process of observing and regulating your own behaviors based on your analysis of the situation and others responses to you |
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| The gap between our inaccurate self-perceptions and reality |
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| Self-fulfilling prophecies |
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| Events that happen as the result of being foretold, expected or talked about |
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| The internal conversations we have with ourselves |
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| The process of monitoring the social environment to learn more about self and others |
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| Implicit personality theories |
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| Assumptions people have developed about which physical characteristics and personality traits or behaviors are associated with another |
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| To generalize and perceive that a persona has a whole set of characteristics when your have actually observed only one characteristic, trait or behavior |
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| Attributions that cover up individual differences and ascribe certain characteristics to an entire group of people |
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| A rigid attitude that is based on group membership and predisposes an individual to feel, think or act in a negative way toward another person or group. |
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| A negative action toward a social group or its members on account of group membership |
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| Reasons we give for others behaviors |
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| A message that reflects your understanding of the meaning of another persons nonverbal behavior |
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