... Behavior * Social psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others * Person perception is the process of forming impressions of others * Social schemas are organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people * Stereotypes are widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership ... affective component of an attitude can be shaped by classical conditioning * Leon Festinger's dissonance theory assumes that inconsistency in attitudes motivates attitude...

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Schizophrenia is marked by abnormalities of thought, perception, emotion, language, attention and motor behavior. Thought disturbances may include delusional thinking: C P believes that everyday events have a special significance for him (e.g., noticing a person walking behind him, he concludes that the person is following him; or, trivial ... control over his bodily or mental functions. P may have delusions of persecution (sees himself as the target of hostile forces) and/or delusions of grandeur (P sees herself as having great powers and/or importance) Other disorders of thought: C Thinking...

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