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

Who is most likely to have a self-fulfilling prophecy occur?

Iain is from Australia, where people drive on the left-hand side of the road. When he moved to the United States, his accident rate was higher than any of his friends'. Why might this be?

Jacob's friend, Tom asks him, "Do you think I'm short-tempered?" Jacob had never really thought about how short-tempered or calm Tom was until he had asked. Nonetheless, Jacob was able to provide him a quick answer. What social cognitive process was most likely involved in this judgment?

Which of the following is not a typical example of the kind of knowledge that is contained in a schema? Your knowledge

Recently, a state department of education decided to lower the grade needed to pass the writing portion of a standardized test. Assuming that Rosenthal and Jacobson's research remains true in today's classrooms, what is most likely to happen to students' writing ability as a result?

"People literally create their own realities" is the basic idea behind ________.

Wegner (2002, 2004) compared the illusion of free will to which of the following?

________ thinking is nonconscious, effortless, and unintentional, whereas ________ thinking is conscious, effortful, and intentional.

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

Automatic thinking is ________ while controlled thinking is ________.

Recall that Harold Kelley (1950) told some college students that their guest lecturer was a warm person, and others that he was a cold person. The visitor then lectured for twenty minutes. After the lecture, those students who expected the lecturer to be warm

According to the authors of your text, a good metaphor of human thinking is to consider people to be

You've rented the movie Sophie's Choice. There is a scene in which Sophie, a recent immigrant from Poland, is both surprised and amused that Americans have so many words for the concept "fast." She reports that in Polish, there is only one word. You've just read Chapter 3 (Social Cognition), and a friend asks you why the cultures differ in that regard. What would you say?

Research suggests that self-fulfilling prophecies are more likely to occur

Researchers had participants memorize a number of words before reading an ambiguous passage about a character named Donald. The results of this study showed that people

The studies by Rosenthal and Jacobson on self-fulfilling prophecies have concluded that the teachers treated the "bloomers" in class differently than the other children. In which of the following ways did the teachers treat these students differently?

In the study by Shariff and Norenzayan (2007) presented in your text, what made people behave more altruistically, actually leaving more money for a stranger? They were

Based on your reading of Chapter 3 (Social Cognition), who would you predict would be more frustrated: Katie, who missed an "A" by one point, or James, who missed an "A" by five points?

Recall that a group of researchers interviewed people who had suffered the loss of a spouse or child. They found that the more ________, the more distress the survivors reported.

Priming is similar to which of the following since they both influence our behavior, even without our awareness?