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

If you would like for your student government to pass a bill putting more lights along major walkways,how could you use ease of retrieval to persuade them?

The ________ heuristic would suggest the following personal rule of thumb: "The more similar an individual is to typical members of a group,the more likely that individual is also a member of that group,regardless of base rates."

In an experiment,researchers had participants unscramble words that were "rude" words (e.g. ,"hostile")or "polite" words (e.g. ,courteous).Soon after,participants were more or less likely to interrupt the experimenter (who was talking to an accomplice).This is a demonstration of ________.

Decisions made on the basis of the representativeness heuristic may be flawed because they tend to ignore information about ________.

The frequency with which a given event or pattern occurs in the population is its ________.

Sabiha is left-handed,and prefers left-handed men.She is going to be introduced to Wilbur.Left-handers comprise about 10 percent of the population.She has been truthfully informed that Wilbur is either a left-handed Chinese psycholinguist or a left-handed used car salesman from the Midwestern region of the United States.If Sabiha makes good use of base rates,which of the following outcomes should she expect?

We often use our ________ to regulate our feelings.That is,we may ________ to yield to temptation in order to improve our mood.

Once it is activated,the status quo heuristic may have automatic effects on behavior.This can cause individuals to ________.

Judging individuals based on their similarity to typical members of a group is known as the ________.

People are more easily influenced by others when they are in a positive mood.In part,this is because positive affect ________.

Blair watches the newscast each evening,with its usual diet of fires and other accidents.She often eats at Herby's Fried Snacks,a restaurant located in a brick building,despite the fact that her eating there has resulted in bad indigestion several times.She avoids the well-respected Korean restaurant,because the Korean restaurant is in a wooden building.Blair's eating habits are probably being guided by ________.

When you notice something and then remember it,you are involving the processes known as ________ and ________.

One of the primary reasons why heuristics are employed as a strategy to process incoming information is that they can be executed ________.

The relatively effortful and conscious processing of social information is known as ________.

The area of the brain that is most clearly involved in automatic evaluations is ________.

Describe what is meant by mood dependent memory,and give an example.

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

Those things that are easier to recall tend to have a greater impact on subsequent judgments and decisions.This fact is known as ________.

In thinking about a major assignment that is due in one week,Jacey focuses on the tasks to be accomplished and how she thinks she will approach each task.She does not spend much time thinking about how long similar tasks have taken her in the past.As a result,Jacey is likely to underestimate the amount of time needed for the assignment.This is probably because Jacey has ________.

In general,information that is ________ to remember has a stronger effect on our thinking.This is known as the availability heuristic.