The act of sending sexually explicit messages or photographs, primarily between mobile phones.
Sexting
100
Motivation to perform an activity because of the external goals toward which that activity is directed.
Extrinsic Motivation
100
This type of relationship is an association between two or more people and may range from fleeting to enduring.
Interpersonal Relationship
100
This physical problem involving the head, neck and shoulder is caused by excessive strain on the spine from looking at a mobile device.
Text Neck
200
A facial expression pictorially represented by punctuation and letters.
Emoticon
200
The state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, esp. as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.
Cognitive Dissonance
200
This type of relationship is a particularly close interpersonal relationship that involves physical and/or emotional intimacy.
Intimate Relationship
200
Worry or fear of being evaluated or scrutinized by other people which may be caused by texting or other social behaviors
Social Anxiety
300
A system for communicating with others using signals that convey meaning and are combined according to the rules of grammar.
Language
300
This theory states that people seldom are aware of their specific motives and instead draw inferences about their motivations according to what seems to make the most sense.
Self-Perception Theory
300
A closely knit groups of friends with whom you engage in regular, maybe even perpetual, texting.
Texting Circle
300
This phenomena was named after a famous American political activist who was quoted for saying, "He that has once done you a Kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."
Ben Franklin Effect
400
The part of a sentence that holds the meaning.
Deep Structure
400
Daily Double: Malow's Hierarchy of Needs states that we need these 5 things.
a. 1. Physiological
2. Safety
3. Love and Belonging
4. Esteem
5. Self-Actualization
400
The theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.
Dunbar's Number
400
The tendency to over-value depositional or personality-based explanations for the observed behaviors of others while under-valuing situational explanations for those behaviors.
Fundamental Attribution Error
500
A major social activity in which individuals in a group clean or maintain one another's body or appearance.
Social Grooming
500
This theory states that extrinsic rewards reduce intrinsic value because such rewards undermine people’s feeling that they are choosing to do something for themselves.
Control Theory
500
The measure of how different people are in a social system.
Heterophily and Homophily
500
The act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours to what individuals perceive is normal of their society or social group.