Across
- 1. Looking for evidence that supports what you already believe
- 3. Overestimating personality and underestimating the situation in others behavior
- 7. Plural term for mental frameworks that shape expectations
- 8. The evolutionary process favoring traits that help survival
- 12. Taking credit for success but blaming outside factors for failure
- 14. Mental discomfort from conflicting beliefs or actions
- 19. People who see an event happen
- 20. The effect of other people on our behavior and thinking
- 21. Changing behavior because of a direct request
- 22. Perspective explaining behavior through adaptation, survival, and natural selection
- 24. Judging something by how much it matches a mental category
- 25. A mental shortcut used to make quick judgments
- 27. A generalized belief about a group of people
- 28. The mental manipulation of information
- 31. The process of changing attitudes through communication
- 36. The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information
- 38. Following direct commands from an authority figure
- 40. Unfair behavior toward people based on group membership
- 44. A mental framework used to organize and interpret information
- 46. A person with social or institutional power
- 48. Perspective focusing on learned behavior, rewards, and punishments
- 49. A persons characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
- 52. Mental activity outside awareness emphasized by the psychoanalytic perspective
- 53. Changing a schema to fit new information
- 56. Another term for learning by imitation
- 57. Being less likely to help when others are present
- 59. The persistence of learning over time
- 63. Perspective focusing on thinking, memory, and mental processes
- 64. An expected rule for behavior in a group or culture
- 65. The need or desire that directs behavior
- 67. Living long enough to continue life and reproduce
- 68. Building perception from sensory details
- 71. Perspective emphasizing personal growth and reaching potential
- 73. Pressure from others that pushes someone to fit in
- 74. Feeling less personal responsibility because others are around
- 75. Theory about how we explain our own and others behavior
Down
- 2. Behavior intended to harm another person
- 4. Cruel or hurtful behavior used as an example in perspective questions
- 5. Overestimating how much other people agree with you
- 6. Organizing and interpreting sensations rather than just receiving them
- 9. Expecting something and acting in ways that help make it happen
- 10. Influence from people of the same age or group
- 11. Any observable action of a person or animal
- 13. The external circumstances affecting behavior
- 15. How we form impressions and judgments about other people
- 16. The tendency to like something more after repeated exposure
- 17. Learning through association, rewards, or consequences
- 18. Deeply held ideas about what is important or good
- 23. Learning by watching others
- 26. Using expectations and prior knowledge to interpret sensations
- 27. Perspective focusing on social roles, culture, and group influence
- 29. A trait or behavior that improves survival or reproduction
- 30. Perspective focusing on unconscious conflict and early childhood experiences
- 31. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
- 32. The quality of being believable and trustworthy to an audience
- 33. A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience
- 34. Units of heredity that influence traits and behavior
- 35. A consequence that decreases behavior
- 37. Perspective focusing on the brain, genes, and body processes
- 39. The effect of one person or group on another
- 41. Explaining behavior by personality, character, or effort
- 42. Mistakenly thinking others see a situation differently than you do
- 43. Explaining behavior by the situation or environment
- 45. Striving against others for resources, status, or success
- 47. Interpreting new information using existing schemas
- 50. A feeling state involving physiological arousal and thoughts
- 51. A consequence that strengthens behavior
- 54. Changing behavior or beliefs to match a group
- 55. Nerve cells that communicate information in the nervous system
- 58. The process of explaining the causes of behavior
- 60. A learned tendency to respond positively or negatively toward something
- 61. Shared beliefs, values, customs, and behaviors of a group
- 62. The best example of a category in your mind
- 66. A negative attitude toward a group
- 69. Understanding and sharing another persons feelings
- 70. An idea or conviction accepted as true
- 72. A tendency that affects judgment