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| A technique for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, and/or correcting previous knowledge |
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| A testable prediction about the conditions under which an event will occur |
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| A scientific study of the way in which a person's thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the real, imagined, or implied presence of others |
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| how we think about ourselves |
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| how people work to convey certain images of themselves to others |
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| how people form impressions of and make influences about other people and events in the social world |
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| how we think about the social world, and in particular how we select, interpret, and use information to make judgements about the world |
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| the impact of other people's attitudes and behaviour on our thoughts feelings and behaviour |
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| the process by which people's expectations about a person lead them to elicit behaviour that conforms with those expectations |
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| A theory of learning that describes people's behavior as acquired through conditioning |
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| a theory that proposes objects are viewed holistically - "whole form" |
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| a recent branch of psychology that studies individuals' strengths and virtues |
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| the tendency to see a given outcome as inevitable once the actual outcome is known |
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| A sub-discipline of social psychology examining how factors in the social world influence activity in the brain, as well as how neural processes influence attitudes and behaviour |
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| the study of how social, cognitive, and emotional factors influence economic behaviour |
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| Socio cultural perspective |
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| a perspective describing people's behaviour and mental processes as being shaped in part by their social and/or cultural context |
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| a view of the self as distinct, autonomous, self-contained, and endowed with unique attributes |
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| A view of the self as part of a larger social network, including family, friends, and co-workers. |
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| The view that there is no absolute reality and that our knowledge and what we understand to be reality are socially constructed |
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