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| the process of selectivity attending to information and assigning meaning to it |
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| a set of characteristics used to differentiate some things from others |
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| assigning meaning to information |
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| your overall evaluation of your competence and personal worthiness |
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| the gap between our inaccurate self-perceptions and reality |
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| self-fulfilling prophecies |
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| events that happen as a result of being foretold, expected, or talked about |
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| the internal conversations with ourselves |
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| the internal process of observing and regulating your own behavior based on your analysis of the situation and others' responses to you |
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| a pattern of learned behaviors that people use to meet the perceived demands of a particular context |
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| the process of monitoring the social environment to learn more about self and others |
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| implicit personality theories |
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| assumptions people have developed about which physical characteristics and personality traits or behaviors are associated with another |
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| to generalize and perceive that a person has a whole set of characteristics when you have actually observed only one characteristic, trait, or behavior |
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| attributions that cover up individual differences and ascribe certain characteristics to an entire group of people |
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| a rigid attitude that is based on group membership and predisposes an individual to feel, think, or act in a negative way toward another person or group |
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| a negative action toward a social group or its members on account of group membership |
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| reasons we give for others' behavior |
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| a message that reflects your understanding of the meaning of another person's non-verbal behavior |
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