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Concepts in PSYC 3150

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show The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another.  
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show A society's widely held ideas and values, including assumptions and cultural ideologies. Our social representations help us make sense of our world.  
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show The tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one's ability to have foreseen how something turned out.  
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Framing   show
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Mundane Realism   show
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show The degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants.  
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Demand Characteristics   show
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Spotlight Effect   show
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Illusion of Transparency   show
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show Beliefs about self that organize and guide the processing of self-relevant information.  
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Self Concept   show
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Possible Selves   show
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Social Comparison   show
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show The tendency to underestimate how much time will be required to complete a task.  
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show The tendency to overestimate the enduring impact of emotion-causing events.  
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show The human tendency to underestimate the speed and the strength of the "psychological immune system" which enables emotional recovery and resilience after bad things happen.  
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show Differing implicit (automatic) and explicit (consciously controlled) attitudes toward the same object.  
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Terror Management Theory   show
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show A person's overall self-evaluation or sense of self-worth  
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show The concept of giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications  
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Collectivism   show
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Self-Efficacy   show
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Locus of Control   show
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show The sense of hopelessness and resignation learned when a human or animal perceives no control over repeated bad events  
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show The tendency to perceive oneself favorably  
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Self-Serving Attributions   show
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show The adaptive value of anticipating problems and harnessing one's anxiety to motivate effective action  
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show The tendency to overestimate the commonality of one's opinions and one's undesirable or unsuccessful behaviors  
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show The tendency to underestimate the commonality of one's abilities and one's desirable or successful behaviors  
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show Explaining away outgroup members' positive behaviors; also attributing negative behaviors to their dispositions (while excusing such behavior by one's own group)  
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show Protecting one's self image with behaviors that create a handy excuse for later failure  
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Self-Presentation   show
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show Being attuned to the way one presents oneself in social situations and adjusting one's performance to create the desired impression  
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