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

Complete the analogy: analytic thinking style: ___________ :: holistic thinking style: _____________.

When people use the availability heuristic to make quick judgments, they are likely to do all of the following except

The authors of your textbook point out that it is reasonable to use schemas to resolve ambiguity, but that this can become problematic when the schema is

Which of the following decisions would you be least likely to make via automatic thinking? A decision about what

Schemas are most like which of the following?

A friend is complaining about the requirement that she take a statistics and research methods course as part of her major. Describe to her at least two reasons that the course will make her a better thinker, not just a better psychology student.

Instead of considering every single brand and variety of pasta sauce at the grocery store, most people make quick decisions about which one to purchase. This is an example of how people use

The authors of your text present information suggesting some of the powers of the unconscious mind. Explain two ways that the unconscious mind is a part of social cognition.

In the1977 study regarding Donald using priming, the dependent variable was

The ________ heuristic refers to the mental shortcut whereby people classify a person or thing based on how similar it appears to be to the typical case.

What is easily brought to mind may not be typical of the big picture. This is the problem with the

The self-fulfilling prophecy occurs because we often

Which example best describes the representativeness heuristic?

Blair's co-worker, Susan, asks her, "Am I a good employee?" Blair hadn't really thought about it before, but using the availability heuristic, which of the following thought processes is she most likely to have?

Ava is at a party, deep in conversation with her friends. Suddenly, she hears her name mentioned in another conversation and her attention turns to monitor that conversation. Clearly, Ava had been unconsciously monitoring the other conversations. Such experiences demonstrate the

Which of the following is one way to overcome social cognitive mistakes, as described by your textbook?

In trying to decide which of two classmates is smarter, you use the rule, "the faster people talk, the smarter they are," so you choose the classmate who talks faster. You have applied a ________ to decide who is smarter.

Research by Kahneman and Tversky (1973) presented by the authors of your text found that people do not use base rate information sufficiently, and pay more attention to

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 _________, and Western participants focused more on _________.

Ms. Honeywell is an elementary school teacher who maintains that in her thirty-five years of experience, boys just tend to do better at math than girls. Recently, she has read a number of studies that show that girls and boys actually have about the same level of math ability. Based on information about how teachers create and sustain self-fulfilling prophecies, what is Ms. Honeywell most likely to think about the study results?