You Get a Lower Grade in a Course Than Your

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True/False

You get a lower grade in a course than your friend did even though you studied more during the semester and attended class more often. As a result, equity theory predicts that you might convince yourself that "Grades aren't all that important. After all, lots of people who succeed in the real world didn't make good grades in school."

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Definitions:

Group Mind

McDougall’s idea that people adopt a qualitatively different mode of thinking when in a group.

Social Cognition

How people process, store, and apply information about others and social situations, influencing their perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors.

Cognitive Miser

A term from social psychology that describes individuals' tendency to conserve mental energy by simplifying complex information through heuristics.

Manipulation and Transfer

Techniques used in research or applied contexts to explore the causality of variables or to apply knowledge or skills learned in one context to another.