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| The process by which we make sense out of experience |
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| The means of interpreting experience in a way that comforms to one's beliefs and convictions |
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| the tendency to expose oneself to information that reaffirms existing attitudes, beliefs, and values |
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| the tendency to focus on certain cues and ignore others |
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| the tendency to remember those things that reinforce one's way of thinking and forget those that oppose one's way of thinking |
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| a strategy that facilitates the organization of stimuli by enabling us to focus on diffrent stimuli alternately |
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| constructs used to organize perceptions |
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| the tendency to fill in missing preceptual pieces to percieve a complete world |
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| the ability to reflect on and monitor one's own behavior |
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| everything one thinks and feels about oneself |
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| the sort of person one perceives oneself to be |
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| persintent teasing, name calling, or social exclusion |
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| an optimistic belief in one's own competence |
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| a prediction or an expectation that comes true simply beacuse one acts as if it were true |
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| the principle that we fulfill the expectation of others |
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| the principle that we fulfill our own expectations |
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| a model containing four panes that is used to explain the roles that self-awareness and self-disclosure play in realationships |
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| the part of the self conatiining information known to both the self and others |
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| the part of the self known to others but not known to oneself |
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| the part of the self that contains information about the self known to oneself but that is hidden from others |
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| the process of revealing to another person information about the self that this person would not otherwise know |
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| the part of the self that is unknown to oneself and others |
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| the creation of a postive image designed to influence others |
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| the self we believe ourselves to be |
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| the means used to present a public image |
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| people highly attuned to impression manangement efforts |
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| people who pay little attention to responses others have to them |
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| expectations that produce a readiness to process experience in a predetermined way |
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| the percieving of qualities that are primarily postive |
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| the perceiving of qualities that are primarily negative |
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| initial judgements about people |
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| predicted outcome value theory |
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| the theory that we form realationships based on whether we believe they are worth it |
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| the ability of one's first impression to color subsequent impressions |
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| a genmeralization about people, places, or events held by many memebers of a society |
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| a biased, negative attitude toward a perticular group of people; a negative prejudgment based on memebership in a social category |
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| the erronepus belief that any one person can know all there is to know about anything |
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| the process by which one unconciously adds restrictions that limit one's perceptual capabilities |
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| that which is known to be true based on observation |
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| an assuption with varying degrees of accuracy |
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| the experiencing of the world from a perspective other than our own |
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| the failure to understand that we do not all attribute tha same meanings to similar behavioarl clues |
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| exhibiting an indivualistic orientation |
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| the theory stating that a person's own distinctive traits are more salient to him or her than are the more prevalent traits possed by others in the immediate enviroment |
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| a theory propounded by George Gerber and colleagues focusing on mass media's ability to influence users' attitudes and perceptions of reality |
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