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Frites hider

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Balance theory (p.o.x) theory 
P:person O:other people x:attitude object
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Leon festing

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Cognitive dissonance theory

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James Riley

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Stroop rest

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Ray baumalster and Susan Fisk

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Social cognition focuse in people thoughts and social relations

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Elliot Anderson

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Effort justification

Finding when people who suffer work hard and make sacrifices they will try to convince themselves it worth wild

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Allen wicker

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AB problem : attitude don’t match behavior

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Tuesky and kahnemin

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What petange of country of the u.n in Africa

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Harold kelly

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Attribution cube: attribution theory that uses 3 type of info

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Stanley milgram

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Social identity/ behavior study of obedience

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Personal story bias

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When presented with statistical infor or with a care study , we tend to rely on the case study

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Confirmation bias

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Tendency to notice info that confirms one beliefs and to ignore info that contradicts ones beliefs

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Phillip zimbardo

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The Stanford provision expirement

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Contamination

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When something becomes impure and unclean in our mind

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Magical thinking

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Thinking based on assumption that does not hold to raking scientific scrutiny

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Gamblers falicy

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Tendency to believe that a particular chance of events is effective by previous events and that chance will even put the long run

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Illusion of control

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False belief that one can influnce certain events especially random of chance events

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False consensus effect

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Tendency to over estimate the number of people who share your opinion attitude and beliefs

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False uniqueness effect

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Tendency to underestimate the number of people who share your most prize characteristic and ability’s

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Rationalation

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A Freudian mechanism where we make excuses for our failure and short coming

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Bass rate falicy

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Tendency to ignore or inderuse base rate information and instead to be influenced by the distinctive features of the case being judge

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Hot hand

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the tendency for gambler who get lucky to think they have a hot hand and their luck will countinue

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Theory perseveration

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Tendency to stick with a conclusion unless there is overwhelming eveidence to change it

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Polarization.

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The pattern of shifting towards more extreme opinions

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Statistical regression

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The statistical tendency for extreme scores or extreme behavior to return toward the average

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Counter factual thinking
Imagining alternatives to past or present factual events or circumstances
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Consenses
How do others react to some stimulation | Personal vs situational
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Distinctness
How does the same person react to different stimulus
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Consistency
Do you feel the same way tomorrow | Behavior low in consistency
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Self serving bias
Tendency to take credit for success but dent blame for failure
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Actor observation bias
Tendency for actors to make external/situational attribution & for observation to make internal/ personal attribution
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Fundamental attribution error
Tendency in western culture to over estimate personal attribution & underestimate situational attribution
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Self serving attribution
Underline need to support our own self esteem
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Minor exposed effect
Attraction to a stimulates that results from increase exposed to that stimulus
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Self fulfilling profacy aka behavioral conformation
Tendency to act an ones expectation so that our expectation come true
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Knowledge structure
Organized packets of info that are stored in memory
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Schemes
Knowledge structure that represents substantial info about a concept . ( attribution and relationships)
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Scripts
Knowledge structure that define situation and guide behavior
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Priming
Activating an idea in someone kind so that related ideas are more accessible
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Framing
Whether messages stress potential gains (positive frame) or potential losses (negative frame)
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Gain frame
Focuses on how doing something will add to your health
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Loss frame
How not doing something will subtract from your health
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Cognitive miser
Term that describe people reluctance to do much extra thinking
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Stroop test
Standard measure of effortful control over responses.
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Conscious
Controlled extremely insufficient take a lot effort
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Atomatic / uncouncious
More efficient , no effort , more prone to error
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Minimal group effect
People show favorative towards ingrouo memebrr , even when members are determined
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Realistic conflict theory
Prejudice stems from inter group competition for limited resources
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Social catorgorization
Classification of people into group based on common attributes
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Stereotypes
(Beliefs) that associates a group of people with certain characteristics
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Prejudice
(Emotions) negative feelings towards others based solely on therrevaffliction with a certain group
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Discrimination
(Behavior/action) directed against people because of their group affiliation
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Subtype
Catergories of people who do not fit into a general stereotype
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Stereotype threat
The fear that we might confirm the stereotype that other hold
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Racism
A deep seated form of prejudice based on a person skin color or their racial or ethnic background
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Aversive rasism
Views + negative feelings towards minorities feel uncomfortable around minorities +thus around them
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Sexism
Based on a person gender , directed towards women
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Misogyny
Hatred towards women as a sexual define group
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Misandry
Hatred of men
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Masogony
Hatred of marriage
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Phobea
Irrational fear
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Homophobia
That is based on a person sexual orentation
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Sex
Biologically
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Gender
Social construction
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Discontinuity effect
Group tend to be more extreme& often more hostile then individuals
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Self defecting prophecy
Things will not come true
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Media cognition
Thinking about thinking
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Social cognition
A movement in social psy in 1970 focused on thoughts about people $about social relationships

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