Exam 3: The Core Elements of Social Cognition

Samira is planning a hiking trip.She quickly brings the idea of travel into her thoughts and thinks about planning for her trip.This is MOST clearly an example of:

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

Takashi often thinks about his life as a journey that he is taking.For example,he feels like he took a wrong turn when he started hanging out with some cruel friends in high school,but now that he's in college and studying what interests him,he feels like he's back on the right path.It is MOST appropriate to say that Takashi is using a(n)_____ to understand his life.

What does the research on attitudes suggest?

Seeking out information that supports our beliefs about what we already believe is called the:

In the social cognition literature,a metaphor can be defined as:

After Hurricane Katrina,pictures were shown in news outlets of people swimming through floodwaters with bags of food.The media tended to describe white people in such images as having _____ and black people as having _____.

Lu believes that even though she studied hard for the test and knows the material well,she will do poorly on the exam.After taking the exam,she found that she did do poorly on it.This is an example of:

Amartya is interviewing several candidates for a position at his firm.If he makes the right hiring decision,the firm will prosper,his superiors will look favorably on him,and Amartya will likely receive a promotion.However,if he makes a poor choice,the firm will suffer,and Amartya may even be demoted.When evaluating candidates for the position,Amartya will be primarily motivated by a need:

Attitudes that people are consciously aware of are called:

Janet loves children's movies about princesses.One day she watches a children's movie about a princess,and shortly afterward she is introduced to a friend of a friend,a rich woman named Tamara.What does research on priming suggest will occur?

_____ is the ease with which people can bring an idea into consciousness,while _____ is the process where something in the environment elevates the activation of a schema.

When people tell someone else a story about an event they observed,they often sharpen it by _____ and level it by _____.

Kruglanski's theory of lay epistemology addresses which basic problem of social cognition?

To retrieve a memory of the movie you are supposed to see tomorrow with your friend,you need to activate a linkage with movies you have already seen and with the types of movies your friend likes.This process is known as:

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

The BEST definition of a schema is:

In order to determine what role the experiential system and automatic behaviors might play in a given process,researchers have used which of the following methods?

For which of the following pairs of items was the strongest correlation found between people's explicit and implicit attitudes?

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