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Social Psychology Final

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to express or emit nonverbal behavior
The tendency for individuals, when frustrated or unhappy, to displace aggression onto groups that are disliked, visible and relatively powerless
Imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that might have happened, but didn't.
The desire to help another person even if it involves a cost to the helper
to interpret the meaning of the nonverbal behavior other people express
drawing meaningful conclusions about another person's personality or skills based on an extremely brief sample of behavior
The tendency to see relationships, or correlations, between events that are actually unrelated
explanation for one's success that credit internal, dispositional factors plus explanations for one's failures that blame external, situational factors
A change in ones behavior due to the real or imagined influence of other people
People use _____, which are mental structures that organize our knowledge about the social world
people's tendency to engage in self defeating behavior in order to have a ready excuse should they perform poorly or fail
If you had just looked out the window and seen a large man leaning against a building drinking from a paper bag, you would assume that the man on the bus was drunk. This is an example of what?
the idea that we have a set amount of an ability that cannot change
people's predictions about how they will feel in response to a future emotional event
The study of direct attempts at _______ is a major part of social psychology
Sets of implicit rules that specify proper sexual behavior for a person in a given situation, varying with the person's gender, age, religion, social status, and peer group
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The notion that "blowing off steam"- By behaving aggressively or watching others do so - relieves built up anger and aggressive energy and hence reduces the likelihood of further aggressive behavior
_________ refers to how people communicate, intentionally or unintentionally, without words.
the desire to engage in an activity because of external rewards or pressures, not because we enjoy the task or find it interesting
the tendency to think that other people are more susceptible to attributional biases in their thinking than they are
A generalization about a group of people in which certain traits are assigned to virtually all members of the group, regardless of actual variation among the members
Intentional behavior aimed at causing physical harm or psychological pain to another person
nonverbal gestures that have well-understood definitions within a given culture; they usually have direct verbal translations, such as the ok sign