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Outgroup "them" refers to a group that people perceive as distinctively different from or apart from their ingroup.
Outgroup homogeneity bias refers to a tendency to underestimate the variability among outgroup members; the assumption that outgroup members are more similar to one another than ingroup members are to one another Outgroup homogeneity bias, moreover, is the perceptual tendency to assume that the members of other groups are very similar to each other, whereas the membership of one’s own group is more heterogeneous.
Outgroup homogeneity effect refers to perception of outgroup members as more similar to one another than are ingroup members.
Outpatient surgery is a surgery performed in the hospital or doctor’s office, after which a patient is allowed to return home. Inpatient surgery requires hospitalization.
Outpatient treatment refers to the treatment where patients are not required to stay overnight at the facility.
Output interference is a term used in Fuzzy-trace theory that refers to response competition in the form of scheduling effects and feedback effects, produced by the act of making responses.