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the process through which individuals form impressions of others and
interpret information about them. |
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the process through which other people affect an individual’s thoughts or
actions. |
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the enhancement of a well-learned performance when another person is
present. |
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a phenomenon that occurs when individuals make less of an effort when
attempting to achieve a particular goal as a group than they would if they were attempting to achieve the goal on their own. |
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| Sociocultural perspective |
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a perspective that focuses on the relationship between social
behavior and culture. |
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| a perspective that focuses on the physical and biological predispositions that result in human survival |
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| Social cognitive perspective |
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| a perspective that builds on behavioral theories and demonstrates that an individual’s cognitive process influences and is influenced by behavioral associations. |
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| Social learning perspective |
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| a perspective that stresses the particular power of learning through social reinforcements and punishments. |
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| Places a great deal of emphasis on natural selection or “the process whereby individuals with certain characteristics are more frequently represented in subsequent generations as the result of being better adapted for their environment. |
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a phenomenon that causes individuals to assume that everyone
shares the same opinion they do. |
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| the tendency to think that one knew that something would occur all along. |
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| the act of judging circumstances differently. |
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| the tendency to notice information that confirms one’s beliefs and to ignore information that disconfirms one’s beliefs. |
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| an individual who is part of the research team and is placed in the experiment to play a particular role |
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