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SymmetryPrototypicality
Averageness
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Factors of physical attractiveness
,Peripheral route
Central route
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Routes to persuasion
Overestimating the intensity of future feelings
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Impact bias
According to Batson's empathy-altruism hypothesis, observers who empathize with a
person in need (that is, put themselves in the shoes of the victim and imagine how that
person feels) will experience empathic concern and have an altruistic motivation for
helping.
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Empathic concern
Study conducted by Bibb Latane et al in 1979
Subjects wore blindfolds and headphones and were told to clap alone or as a group
,When clapping in groups, individuals produced 1/3 of noise relative to when in
groups
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Social loafing experiment
A type of descriptive research that involves measuring the association between two
variables, or how they go together.
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Correlational research
In research, the determination that one variable causes—is responsible for—an effect.
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Causality
openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
By late childhood and early adolescence, people's self-attributions of personality
traits, as well as the trait attributions made about them by others, show patterns of
intercorrelations that confirm with the five-factor structure obtained in studies of
adults.
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, Big five traits
A numerical result summarizing a population (e.g., mean, proportion).
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Parameter
Systematic ways of having participants provide samples of their ongoing behavior.
Participants' reports are dependent (contingent) upon either a signal, pre-established
intervals, or the occurrence of some event.
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Experience sampling methods
Cognitive and social changes that occur in the early elementary school years that
result in the child's developing a more purposeful, planful, and goal-directed
approach to life, setting the stage for the emergence of the self as a motivated agent.
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The Age 5-to-7 Shift
comparing yourself with a person who ranks lower than you on some dimension
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