Exam 2: Social Cognition and Social Thinking

Cognitive representations of instances in a category are:

If you knew that only one per cent of inventors actually have a handsome income you would have an example of:

One major critique of social cognition is that it is too:

Who was the most influential person of the 20th century? Europeans may refer to Hitler, Indians to Gandhi and Americans to Kennedy. These are different responses, so that the category 'influential person' is a(n):

In terms of our general impression of someone, we are more likely to recall information that is inconsistent, rather than consistent, with our impression. Why is this?

In the early 20^th century, because psychologists felt that theories should be based on publicly observable and replicable data, there was a shift away from studying internal (cognitive) events towards studying external, publicly observable events. What was the term classifying this change in emphasis?

An advance in a particular field coincided with renewed interest in the study of general cognition. Which field?

Your friend claims that guys in rock bands 'snort drugs, stub out cigarettes on the carpet and steal people's knickers'. Your studies suggest that these descriptions are:

Your close friend, Dorothy, is usually mild mannered and soft-spoken. However, today Dorothy assertively tells someone who has just unpacked a shopping trolley to return it to 'its proper place'. Which of the following stages are you most likely to encode?

Before meeting the new member coming to your seminar group, your friend tells you that the new member, Sue, left school at the age of 14 to work in a factory, and later entered university as a mature student. Then, another member of your group remarks that Sue usually scores A+s in her work. You are uneasy because you don't know what to make of this. But we know the two kinds of information are:

How is our memory about people organised? Fiske and Taylor (1991) say that it is by:

In addition to self-observation, which other method did Wilhelm Wundt use to study thinking processes?

Heidi is an exchange student from Sweden. Her host family told her to avoid the central city park 'because last week a weird-looking man was seen hanging around there'. Heidi, in her final year majoring in psychology, reasons that this advice is an instance of the:

What characterises 'naïve scientists' is that they:

Following Asch (1946), which model do people use to form first impressions of others?

The most important difference between the 'cognitive miser' model and the 'motivated tactician' model is:

By the 1960s, psychologists had begun to take a fresh interest in cognition. This development continued with which revolution that encouraged and enabled psychologists to model or simulate highly complex human cognitive processes?

Better recall of inconsistent information does not occur when:

Asch (1946) found that some traits (central traits) perceived in others strongly affect how we decide if other traits also apply. For example, we are more likely to judge Mary as 'generous' if we also believe that she is:

Which of the following does NOT describe vivid stimuli? Stimuli that are: