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Chapter 2. Culture and Nature
Chapter 3. The Self
Chapter 4. Behavior Control: The Self in Action
Chapter 5. Social Cognition
Chapter 6. Emotion and Affect
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A broader term for mind, encompassing emotions, desirs, perceptions, and all other psychological processes.
What is psyche?
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The sets of beliefs about oneself.
What is self-knowledge/self-concept?
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an idea of some desired future state.
What is a goal?
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a term used to describe people's reluctanceto do much extra thinking.
What is cognitive miser?
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a concious evaluative reaction to some event.
What is emotion?
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practical ways of doing things.
What is praxis?
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the waya person acts in public, especially in official roles.
What is self as institution?
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belief that one's actions will not bring about desired outcomes, leading one to give up and quit trying.
What is learned helplessness?
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planting or activating an idea in someone's mind.
What is priming?
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a feeling state that is not clearly linked to some event.
What is mood?
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an information based system that includes shared ideas and common ways of doing things.
What is culture?
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looking inward on the private aspects of the self, including emtions, thoughts, desires, and traits.
What is private self-awareness?
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those who believe that traits are fixed, stable things (entities) and thus people should not be expected to change.
What are enity theorists?
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organized packets of informaton that are stored in memory.
What are knowledge structures?
300
a powerful and clearly unified feeling state, such as anger or joy.
What is conscious emotion?
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a choice in which taking or maximizing one benefit requires either accepting a cost or sacrificing another benefit.
What is a tradeoff?
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the process people use to control and change their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is self-regulation?
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a tendency to experience automatic, intrusive thoughts about a goal whose pursuit has been interrupted.
What is Zeigarnik effect?
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knowledge structures that represent substantial information about a concept, its attributes, and its relationships to other concepts.
What are schemas?
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a physiological reaction, including faster heartbeat and faster or heavier breathing, linked to most conscious emotions.
What is arousal?
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the part of the mind outside of consciousness that performs simple operations.
What is automatic system?
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the idea that people learn about themselves by imagining how they appear to others.
What is looking-glass self?
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the tendency for plans to be overly optimistic because the planner fails to allow for unexpected problems.
What is planning fallacy?
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the tendency for observers to attribute other people's behavior to internal of dispositional causes and to downplay situational causes.
What is fundamental atribution error (correspondence bias)?
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the study of a culture by examining its language.
What are anthropolinguistics?