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        | the branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others |  | 
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        | process of forming impressions of others |  | 
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        | effects of physical appearance |  | Definition 
 
        | -good looking ppl tend ot appear like they are more sociable |  | 
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        | organized clustes of ideas about categories of social events and ppl -ppl place other ppl in categories and these categories influence the process of person perception
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        | widely held beliefs that pl have certain characteristics b/c of their membership in a particular group |  | 
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        | occurs when ppl estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association between social traits than they have actually seen |  | 
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        | ppl see what they want to see and over estimate how they see it |  | 
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        | inferences taht ppl draw about the causes of events, others behavior, and their behavior |  | 
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        | causes of behavior to personal dispositions,traits, abilities, and feelings |  | 
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        | causes of behavior to situational demands and environmental constraints |  | 
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        | your view of your own behavior can be quite different from the view of someone else observing you |  | 
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        | fundamental attriution error |  | Definition 
 
        | refers to observers bias in favor of internal attributions in explaining others behavior |  | 
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        | tendency to attribute one's successes to personal factors and one's failures to situational factors |  | 
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        | involves putting personal goals ahead of group goals and defining ones identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group memberships |  | 
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        | involves putting group goals ahead of personal goals and defining ones identity in terms of the groups one belongs to |  | 
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        | refers to positive feelings toward another |  | 
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        | key factors in attraction |  | Definition 
 
        | physical attractiveness, similarity effects, reciprocity effects, romantic ideals |  | 
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        | involves liking those who show they like you |  | 
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        | complete absorption in another that includes tender sexual feelings and the agony and ecstasy of intense emotion |  | 
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        | warm, trusting, tolerant affection for another whose life is deeply intertwined with one's own |  | 
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        | ppls intimate relationships in adulthood follow the same form as their attachments in infancy |  | 
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        | relatively easy to get close to others and described their love relatinos as trusting |  | 
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        | anxious ambivalent attachment |  | Definition 
 
        | preocupation with love accoumpanied by expectations of rejection and described their love relations as volatile and marked by jealousy |  | 
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        | difficult to get close to others and described their love relations as lacking intimacy |  | 
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        | positive or negative evaluations of objects of thoughts |  | 
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        | source, message, channel, reciever |  | 
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        | source factors for persuasion |  | Definition 
 
        | -high credibility -expertise on the subject
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        | message factors in persuasions |  | Definition 
 
        | -fear appel versus logic -one sided vs.two sided argument
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        | channel factors in persuasions |  | Definition 
 
        | -in person -on television or radio
 -via newspaper or magazine
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        | reciever factors or persuasions |  | Definition 
 
        | -personality -expectations
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        | learning theory with attitude formation |  | Definition 
 
        | -classical, operant conditioning -observational learning
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        | dissonance theory of attitude formation |  | Definition 
 
        | inconsistency among attitudes propels ppl in the direction of attitude change |  | 
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        | exists when related attitudes or beliefs are inconsistent |  | 
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        | central role of the elaboration likelihood model |  | Definition 
 
        | persuation based on content and logic of the message then careful processing of the information and the result is more durable attitude change |  | 
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        | Peripheral route of elaboration likelihood model |  | Definition 
 
        | persuasion based on nonmessage factors such as attractiveness, redibility, emotion then minimal processing of the information the result is less durable attitude change |  | 
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        | ppl yield to real or imagined social pressure |  | 
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        | form of compliance that occurs when ppl follow direct commands, usually from someone ina position of authority |  | 
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        | ppl are less likely to provide neede help when they are in groups then when they are alone |  | 
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        | 2 reasons for less productivity when the group increases |  | Definition 
 
        | reduced efficiency and social loafing |  | 
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        | a reduction in effort by individuals when they work in groups as compared to when they work by themselves |  | 
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        | group discussion strengthens a groups dominant point of view and produces a shift toward a more extreme decisiion in the direction -groups take riskier decisions then individuals
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        | members of a cohesive group emphasize cconcurrence at the expense of critical thinking in arriving at a decision |  | 
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        | strength of the liking relationships linking group members to each other and to the group itself |  | 
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