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| Applied Research in Social Psychology |
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| The use of the ideas of social psychology to address issues in other fields |
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| Basic Research in Social Psychology |
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| The fundamental ideas behind behavior and cognitive processes |
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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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| The tendency to notice information that confirms one's beliefs and to ignore information that disconfirms one's beliefs |
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| The act of judging circumstances differently |
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| A perspective that focuses on the physical and biological predispositions that result in human survival |
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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 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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| An approach to thinking that involves using systematic observations, measurements, and experiments to assess information |
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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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| The enhancement of a well-learned performance when another person is present |
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| The process through which other people affect an individual's thoughts or actions |
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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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| A phenomenon that occurs when individuals make less of an effort when attempting to acheive a particular goal as a group than they would if they were attempting to achieve the goal on their own |
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| The process through which individuals form impressions of others and interpret information about them |
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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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