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Chapter 13 Psychology
Vocabulary
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The study of how people think about, influence, and relate to other people.
social psychology
A generalization about a group's characteristics that does not consider any variations from
one individual to another.
stereotype
The view that people are motivated to discover the underlying causes of behavior as part of
their effort to make sense of the behavior.
attribution theory
Observers' overestimation of the importance of internal traits and underestimation of the
importance of external situations when they seek e
fundamental attribution error
Observers' overestimation of the degree to which everybody else thinks or acts the way they
do.
false consensus effect
Positive views of the self that are not necessarily rooted in reality.
positive illusions
The tendency to take credit for our successes and to deny responsibility for our failures.
self-serving bias
The tendency to see oneself primarily as an object in the eyes of others.
self-objectation