Exam 2: Social Cognition: How We Think About the Social World

One adaptive purpose served by counterfactual thinking is to ________.

The ________ is the part of the brain that is directly involved in simple automatic evaluative judgments.

Heuristics exert a strong influence on our thinking in large measure because ________.

Mental frameworks for organizing and processing social information are known as ________.

One type of schema that can be activated non-consciously and automatically by physical features associated with a particular group is known as ________.

The mood ________ effect suggests that we will remember information that is consistent with our current moods.

The storing of information in memory involves the process known as ________.

The automatic processing of social information involves ________.

One study primed participants with metaphors by having them recall a social situation in which they were excluded or included socially.Participants who recalled a social exclusion event felt the room was ____ than those recalling a social inclusion event.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is ________.

The process during which we interpret,analyze,remember,and use information about the social world is known as ________.

Ralph has been severely depressed for about six months and has difficulty remembering when he was not depressed.He is illustrating the effects of ________.

Retrieval of information from memory is involved in social thought.When tested to see what information is more readily available from memory,individuals are more likely to respond with ________.

The law of similarity suggests that ________.

When making judgments that involve factual information,we tend to rely on ________.

The limbic region of the brain is most active when

Juanita finds that she has been given too much information about different new cars and their relative merits and drawbacks.She is having a difficult time making a decision about which car to buy because she cannot process all the information she has gathered.This is an example of ________.

We tend to remember facts and other information better when we are in the same mood as we were in when we learned the information.This is known as ________.

Many used car salesmen believe the asking price for a car should be significantly higher than the car's actual value.They will then adjust the price downwards for an interested customer.This practice represents one application of the ________ heuristic.

High levels of stress and multiple,competing demands for our attention and abilities can reduce our mental processing capacity.These situations can lead to ________.