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| the behaviors, attitudes, and personality traits that are designated as either masculine or feminine in a given culture. |
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| Condition in which a person’s biological sex is ambiguous, often combining aspects of both male and female anatomy and/or physiology. |
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| Condition in which a person’s biological gender identity conflicts with his/her biological sex |
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| Person who experiences discontent with their sex |
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| refers to the unique characteristics that account for our enduring patterns of inner experience and outward behavior. An individual ‘s unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. |
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| all psychological events have a hidden meaning |
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| thoughts and feelings just below awareness; they are available and can be brought to conscious. |
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| Entirely unconscious and present at birth. Irrational component of personality that seeks immediate satisfaction of instinctual urges and drives; ruled by pleasure principle. |
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| The partly unconscious, self-evaluative, moralistic component of personality that is formed through the internalization of parental and societal rules. |
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| most fundamental dimensions of personality |
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| How individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by other people. |
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| Unconditional Positive Regards |
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| In Roger’s theory, the sense that you will be valued and loved even if you don’t conform to the standards and expectations of others; unconditional love or acceptance. |
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| How we understand individuals/groups, different mental processes that we use to form impressions about others |
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| Dispositional Attribution |
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| Explanation of individual behavior from internal characteristics that reside within the individual |
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| Correspondence Bias (aka: Fundamental Attribution Error) |
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| The tendency to overvalue dispositional explanations while undervaluing situational explanations. The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to internal characteristics, while ignoring the effects of external, situational factors. |
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| People changing their behavior because they are asked to do so |
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| Presence of others impairs performance |
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| the tendency to expend less effort on a task when its a group effort |
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| the reduction of self-awareness and inhibitions that can occur when a person is a part of a group whose members feel anonymous. |
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| Unusual patterns of behavior/emotion/thought |
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| A way that researchers gather data, they observe behaviors and collect histories of the individual |
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| Subject is observed in atificial setting |
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| The systematic observation and recording of behaviors as they occur in their natural settings. |
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| when a patient monitors his or her own behavior and reports it to his or her therapist |
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| Presence of other diseases/ disorders in addition to primary diseases/ disorders |
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| the biological category of male or female as defined by physical difference in genetic composition and in reproductive anatomy and function. The behavioral manifestation of the sexual urge; sexual intercourse |
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| the cultural, social, and psychological meanings that are associated with masculinity or femininity. |
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| person’s psychological sense of being male/female |
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| the direction of a person’s emotional and erotic attraction toward members of the opposite sex, same sex, or both sexes |
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| Condition in which a person’s biological gender identity conflicts with his/her biological sex |
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| all psychological events have a specific cause. |
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| the motives behind psychological events are outside of our awareness and normally inaccessible. |
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| thoughts and feelings of which we are currently aware |
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| thoughts and feelings that are outside of our awareness. |
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| Partly conscious rational component of personality that regulates thoughts and behavior and is most in touch with the demands of the external world. |
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| characteristics that can be inferred from observable behavior |
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| Explanation of individual behavior through situational influences (from environment or culture) |
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| Tendency to perceive oneself favorably.Take credits for our successes by attributing them to internal, personal causes, along with a tendency to distance ourselves from our failure by attributing them to external situational causes |
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| Motivation to preserve our positive view about ourselves |
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| a cluster of characteristics that are associated with all members of a specific social group, often including qualities that are unrelated to the objective criteria that define the group. |
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| a negative attitude toward people who belong to a specific group. |
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| Unjustified negative behavior towards a group or individual |
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| a learned tendency to evaluate some object, person, or issue in a particular way; such evaluations may be positive, negative, or ambivalent. |
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| the tendency to adjust one’s behavior, attitudes, or beliefs to group norms in response to real or imagined group pressure. |
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| the performance of an action in response to the direct orders of an auditory or person of higher status. |
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| Diffusion of Responsibility |
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| Person is less likely to take responsibility for an action or inaction when others are present |
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| Excitement, Plateau, Orgasm, Resolution |
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| Denial, Repression, Projection, Displacement |
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| Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, Openness to experience |
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| Affect(prejudice) Behavior(Discrimination) Cognition(Stereotype) |
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| Deviance, Distress, Dysfunction, Danger |
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