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

An environment that promotes getting along well with others, being connected to one another, and seeing the larger context of social situations is most likely to promote __________ thinking.

In a controlled experiment, Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968) informed grade school teachers that some of their students (called "bloomers") would show great academic improvement in the upcoming year. In reality, the "bloomers" were chosen randomly by the researchers, and were no smarter than any of the other students. Which of the following best describes the results of this study? At the end of the year, __________.

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?

Physicians often say, "When you hear hoof beats behind you, think horses, not zebras." In terms of this chapter, this idea most closely resembles __________.

Warren believes that Tom is an outgoing, gregarious person. "Whom did you hang out with this weekend?" Warren asks Tom. "Tell me about all of the fun things that you have planned for the summer," Warren continues. Although Tom is usually rather quiet and reserved, he responds to Warren in an outgoing, friendly manner. This is an example of __________.

You really want your date to like you and to agree to go out again. At the end of the night, it is best to ask him/her for __________.

In the 1977 study regarding the story about Donald and priming, the researcher wanted to study the impact of priming on the students' __________.

__________ refer(s) to the way people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions about themselves and others.

If your professor asks you to list ten ways to improve the course and you cannot do it, how will that affect your course ratings overall?

Daniel is headed out on a blind date. The friend who set him up told him that his date was valedictorian of her graduating class. As Daniel is talking with his date, he begins to question his own understanding of math when she tells him that 1+1=3. His perception that she is right, even though it goes against what he understands, is due to __________.

In order for priming to work successfully, thoughts need to be both __________.

People form __________ people and situations quickly and effortlessly.

Of the following examples, which one demonstrates a common barrier to improving human thinking?

Jerrica received an F on a recent exam at school. When her mother arrives home, the house is clean, dinner has been started, and the laundry is all done. Jerrica is trying to get her mother to see her as very responsible before she breaks the news about the exam. Jerrica is using __________ to help her in this situation.

If you were hoping that other research participants would leave you money, according to research by Shariff and Norenzayan (2007), you would hope they were primed with __________.

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 his colleagues found a(n) __________ difference in how participants described the differences.

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?

When people use information about the relative frequency of members of different categories in the population to make judgments (e.g., the percentage of students who are psychology majors), they are using __________.

In short, counterfactual thinking can be described as __________.