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Hello, Professor and Classmates! For this week’s discussion board, I have chosen social-cognitive. “Social-cognitive is how people process apply and store information about other people and interaction of our traits with our situations" (Myers,2014). It's believed that we learn many of our behaviors from or through conditioning or by observing and imitating others. As humans, we are influenced by what we see. Most people personalities create a situation in which others react to whether they view your character as a negative or a positive one. How we tend to see other people and treat them according to our views, usually cause them to react the same way towards you. Usually, we choose our environments and become attached to that situation which

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