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Social behavior is the interaction between two or more individual in which they affect each
other by this interaction.
2. Social perception is about evaluating intentions and psychological disposition of other
through verbal or non-verbal mode of communication. It is basically forming a personality
sketch of person in our mind.
3. Social cognition mainly studies about how people process, store and apply information
about other people and use them in particular social situation.
4. Attribution is process of inferring the cause of events or behaviors. This can be
interpersonal, predictive or explanatory.
5. Motives are needs that are caused by human action, they are learned in social groups
and situation. It is basically a feeling of achieving something. They are important
components of personality causing characteristics differences among people Ex:
achievement, power,
6. Abraham Harold Maslow
7. Freudian motivation theory (Psychoanalytic theory)
8. Gregariousness, Self-assertion, Altruism
9. Drive is feeling of mental tension on account of our need, incentive satisfies the drive.
Ex: food is incentive for hunger drive.
Need is basic material we required for survival of human. Ex: food
Motive is feeling of the goal, when a individual need and drives are active they develops
a tendency to act in a particular direction to achieve a goal and this stage is known as
motive: Ex: achievement

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