Exam 3: Social Cognition: How We Think About the Social World

What is the major advantage of processing information automatically?

Professor Chadwick is young and looks even younger than his years. He dresses in jeans, grubby tennis shoes, and Hawaiian print shirts. One day in the hallway, he strikes up a conversation with a student. During the conversation, the student begins to complain about the poor teaching of the faculty in the department and about the bad things he's heard about the course that Professor Chadwick teaches. Needless to say, when the student finds out he was actually talking to a professor, he feels embarrassed and avoids Professor Chadwick. What is the moral of this story?

Why do schemas differ from culture to culture?

________ refers to the way people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions about themselves and others.

Automatic thinking tends to be all of the following except

Which of the following does not describe a schema?

When Ashley first starts typing, she uses the "hunt and peck" method and finds typing very effortful. Now, after taking a typing class, she feels like her papers practically type themselves once she figures out what she wants to say. This change in her typing reflects a shift from

The shortcuts that people use to make judgments and decisions quickly and efficiently are called

All of the following describe controlled thinking except

If the research on priming and metaphors is correct, which of the following is true? You are more likely to meet your true love on vacation somewhere

When asked to guess whether Mark is from Montana or California, you guess California because more people live in California. You have used ________ in making your decision.

Recall the words of Dr. Robert Marion, who was the first physician to correctly diagnose a nine-year-old girl with a rare disease: "Doctors are just like everyone else. We go to the movies, watch TV, read newspapers and novels. If we happen to see a patient who has symptoms of a rare disease that was featured on the previous night's 'Movie of the Week,' we're more likely to consider that condition when making a diagnosis." In essence, Dr. Marion is describing the ________ heuristic.

Several studies conducted by Nisbett and his colleagues involved showing participants two similar pictures and asking them to find the differences between them. Nisbett and colleagues found a(n) ___________ difference in how participants described the differences.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is like a ________ you want to come true.

Several studies conducted by Nisbett and his colleagues involved showing participants two similar pictures and asking them to find the differences between them. Nisbett and colleagues found that East Asian participants were more likely to focus on details such as

Karen is so used to driving to her boyfriend's house that when she is taking her little brother to softball practice early one morning, before she is fully awake, she finds herself driving to her boyfriend's house instead. This is an example of

Several studies conducted by Nisbett and his colleagues involved showing participants two similar pictures and asking them to find the differences between them. Nisbett and colleagues found that Western participants had a more __________ thinking style, and East participants had a more ___________ thinking style.

Culture can influence our schemas by influencing

Nao was raised in Japan, and is walking through Times Square in New York City. Based on results from Nisbett' s studies on cultural differences in thinking styles, which of the following would Nao be most likely to notice relative to people raised in the U.S.?

At the grocery store, mothers often keep children busy by letting them "drive" the cart. Little do the children realize that the steering wheel they are playing with does not control anything. This example demonstrates our sometimes misplaced sense of control over