| Accommodation | an adaptation or adjustment.
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| Attractiveness | what we visualize as the "perfect look" or idealized physical attributes.
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| Attribution | the assignment of meaning to the actions of ourselves and others.
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| Biorhythms | recurring cycles of biological processes, such as alertness or hunger that peak at a regular time each day.
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| Constructivism | theory that people interpret and act on experience based on a mental system of organizing knowledge.
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| Empathy | the ability to accurately perceive the experience and behavior of another person.
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| Fundamental attribution error | the overestimation of the degree to which other people's behaviors are due to internal factors and underestimation of the significance of external forces.
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| Interpretation | stage of perception in which we determine the meaning of an event or interaction.
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| Organization | placing stimuli in a knowledge structure or category to give them meaning and aid retention.
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| Perception check | tool that gauges the accuracy of your perceptions by engaging in conversations with others.
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| Perceptual constancy | tendency to maintain the same perception of people and events over time.
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| Perceptual field | the range of stimuli that the mind can apprehend.
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| Perception | process of assigning meaning to sensory information and experiences.
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| Perception shifts | strategies for thinking creatively and managing different perspectives.
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| personal constructs | categories by which people and events can be differentiated.
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| Predisposition | a tendency or inclination to think or behave in a particular way.
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| Priming | audience use of conceptual categories that have been emphasized in the media.
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| Prototype | a specific person, personality, or phenomenon that exemplifies a set of characteristics.
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| Proximity | the equality of being close to something, an object, person, or event.
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| Salience | personal relevance or interest.
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| Sensations | perceptions of the body's condition.
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| Scripts | guides to actions and expectations based on the categorization of perceptions.
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| Selection | focusing on some sensory stimuli rather than others.
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| Self-serving bias | the tendency to attribute external causes to our own misfortunes, but not to those of others.
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| Similarity bias | the attribution of our own motivations to someone else's behaviors.
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| Social learning | the general theory that we learn new behaviors, customs, and routines by watching others.
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| Stimuli | things that evoke a reaction.
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| Vividness | includes all sensations that seem to stand out from their surroundings.
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