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

Ben is overjoyed by the fact that he received a scholarship to go to law school.As a result of his general positive and happy mood he would be MOST likely to show ________.

Bob and Joe are given the task of dividing $10 between them.Bob initially makes an offer to divide the money such that he takes $7 for himself and gives Joe $3.If you were looking at an MRI scan of Joe's brain,what would you see?

Research by Sweeny and Shepperd (2010)had students predicting their grades and measured their emotions during the prediction and after the actual grades were known.Their findings indicate:

Zoë is in a fairly good mood.Consequently,we should expect her to show a(n)________ in her use of ________.

The relatively effortless processing of social information in a non-conscious and unintentional way is known as ________.

Affect includes ________.

Explain how counterfactual thinking can lead to either greater satisfaction or greater dissatisfaction with current outcomes.

One way that schemas influence social thought is by ________.

Jack recently had a job interview that seemed to go exceedingly well by all objective standards.However,Jack noted that his interviewer seemed to be in a bad mood that day.To what extent should Jack be concerned about the latter piece of information?

Briefly describe how the availability heuristic affects our judgments or decisions.This heuristic appears to be used for two different kinds of judgments.What two "rules" are to be found in our use of the availability heuristic and for what two kinds of judgments are they likely to be used?

Norman chronically buys and sells "things" on eBay.He is used to establishing an anchor in negotiating his way toward some endpoint,a sales price,an agreement about delivery time,shipping costs,whatever.The anchor for him is almost always a way of dealing with ________.