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| Readjustment of goals and aspirations as a way to lessen or neutralize the effects of negative self-evaluations in key domains. |
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| Age-Based Double Standards |
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| When an individual attributes an older person's failure in memory as more serious than an memory failure observed in a young adult. |
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| Exercises that percent of alleviate losses in domains that are personally relevant for self-esteem and identity. |
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| Explanations people construct to explain their behavior, which can be situational, dispositional, or interactive. |
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| a trait like pattern of behavior one uses when approaching a problem solving situation. |
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| Cognitive performance that results from the interaction of two or more individuals. |
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| Behavior patterns used to obtain a sense of control over how an outcome or desired goal will be achieved. |
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| Relying more on dispositional information in explaining behavior and ignoring compelling situational information such as extenuating circumstances. |
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| Dispositional Attribution |
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| An explanation for someones's behavior that resides within the actor. |
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| Control Strategies that alter the effects of self-discrepant evidence. |
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| Stereotyped beliefs that affect your judgments of individuals without your being aware of it. |
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| The way in which people combine the components of another person's personality and come up with an integrated perception of the person. |
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| Weighing negative information more heavily than positive information in a social judgement. |
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| Using superficial conversation, slowed speech, simple vocabulary, carefully articulated words, and a demeaning emotional tone. |
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| The belief that what one does has an influence on the outcome of an event. |
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| the tendency to attend to and process positive information over negative information. |
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| That act of bringing the environmental into line with ones own desires and goals, similar to Brandstadter's assimilation activities. |
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| The act of bringing oneself in line with the environment, similar to Brandstadter's accommodation activities. |
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| An explanation for someone's behavior that is external to the actor. |
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| A cognitive structure that represents one's general knowledge about a given social concept or domain. |
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| Process of accessing knowledge wherein one attempts to determine where one obtained a particular piece of information. |
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| Beliefs about characteristics, attributes, and behaviors of members of certain groups. |
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| an evoked fear of being judged in accordance with negative stereotype about a group to which an individual belongs. |
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