Exam 5: Social Cognition

Wing Tung is reading his textbook for history class. At the end of each paragraph, he stops and asks himself what the paragraph was about. Once he feels he knows it, he moves to the next section of the book. Wing Tung is using ____ to improve his thinking.

Counter-regulation is best described as the ____ effect.

A gain-framed appeal focuses on framing something in ____ terms.

When people make external, unstable attributions for the successes of others, these attributions tend to concern questions of ____.

Reducing errors by getting people to use deliberate rather than automatic processing is called ____.

You flip a coin 10 times in a row. Every single time it comes up heads. On the 11th flip, is it more likely to be heads, tails, or are heads and tails equally likely? If you are a hot hand player, you will answer ____.

One explanation for the false consensus effect is that people use their own reaction as an "anchor" for predicting the attitudes and behaviors of others.

People apply the ____ exclusively to their own desirable behaviors.

Which of the following is the best example of ironic processing interfering with attempted thought suppression?

People are faster to classify the target word "flower" when it is preceded by the word "plant" than when it is preceded by the word "elephant." This effect is due to ____.

The human mind is designed to participate in society, and this means its primary job is dealing with other people.

People who think they have a "hot hand" after winning five poker hands in a row tend to think that ____.

The false consensus effect refers to the tendency for people to ____.

People might very well overestimate the likelihood for celebrity marriages to end in divorce, since celebrity divorces tend to be highly publicized (while happy celebrity marriages do not make front page news as easily). The overestimation could be explained in terms of ____.

Three-year-old children tend to think that the Stroop test is really easy, as compared to six-year-old children, 12-year-old children, or adults. This is because, in general, three-year-olds ____.

The fundamental attribution error is also called the _____ because people tend to automatically assume that someone's actions are consistent with their personality.

When you go to a restaurant, you know that there is a certain sequence of things that you need to do: (a)wait to be seated, (b)order, (c)eat, and then (d)pay. In other words, you have a ____ for what needs to be done at restaurants.

The illusion of control tends to produce ____.

Even though stomach cancer kills more people than plane crashes do, most people tend to assume that plane crashes cause more deaths. This misconception seems to arise from ____, since plane crash fatalities tend to be widely publicized and are therefore relatively easy for people to recall.

People tend to judge others by ____, and people tend to judge themselves by ____.