Exam 3: The Core Elements of Social Cognition

Which of the following conditions need NOT be met in order for the cognitive system to override the experiential system when unexpected circumstances threaten routine behaviors?

What are some of the major sources of people's schemas? Provide some examples of schemas that we might derive from these sources.

An associative network is defined as:

In one study on assimilation and contrast effects, some students were primed with an image of Albert Einstein prior to taking a test. What were the results of this study?

Pablo often thinks about the change in moral values in his country as a kind of virus. For example, he thinks that loose moral values spread through the community in a contagious fashion. It is MOST appropriate to say that Pablo is using a(n) _____ to understand morality.

If people are primed with words related to the concept "elderly," what does research suggest they are likely to do?

Which of the following conditions must be met for the cognitive system to override the experiential system?

Discuss a few examples of studies and findings inspired by the metaphoric perspective on social cognition.

What are the relationships between the concepts of accessibility, salience, and priming?

If a behavior is automatized, this means that:

What are a schema, a script, and an impression? Give an example of each.

Schemas that we have for particular individuals are called _____, while schemas that he have about whole groups of people are called _____.

What is a dual process theory, and what are the two modes of social cognition that a dual process theory distinguishes between?

Lao is talking to his therapist and his mother about his new romantic relationship. Lao's therapist asks him to discuss at length whether he really thinks the relationship is good for him, and why. On a different day, Lao's mother just asks him for his gut feelings about the relationship. Based on research, what will be the best predictor of Lao's relationship success?

Kruglanski's theory of lay epistemology, which deals with how people reach conclusions in their cognition about the world, primarily addresses which basic problem of social cognition?

Automatic associations based on previous learning through the experiential system are referred to as _____.

What does research on the somatic marker hypothesis-including comparisons between people with fully functioning versus damaged brains-tell us about the nature of the unconscious?

What are the three conditions that must be met for the cognitive system to override the experiential system in a given situation?

In one study on the effects of priming, participants all completed a sentence unscrambling task, but half the participants saw words in their sentences related to rudeness, while the other half saw words related to politeness. What was the observed effect of this priming in a subsequent situation?

In one study on the effects of schema accessibility, students were asked to evaluate a student who smiled while receiving a compliment from the professor. What were the findings of the study?