Exam 4: Social Cognition: Making Sense of Others

Schemas, categories, concepts, and expectations are all examples of what?

When recollecting a thought, the original perceptual experience and physical state re-emerge and simulate the original experience. What concept does this reflect?

A study that instructs participants to "not think of a white bear" is an example of what kind of experiment?

People tend to focus too heavily on outliers, or extreme instances of outcomes, when making predictions for the future. In doing so, they are ignoring what?

What is the name for an initial stimulus that activates concepts and affects subsequent interpretation?

People generally get more upset if they miss a train by one or two minutes, than if they were to have missed that same train by twenty minutes. This reflects which heuristic?

Unlike multiple choice, an open-ended memory question is testing what kind of memory?

What does the term "cognitive miser" refer to?

What does the term "motivated tacticians" refer to?

Whenever Paula meets someone new, the first and foremost quality she looks for is how intelligent he/she is. To Paula, the trait of intelligence can be described as what?

What is the operational definition of social cognition?

What is the conceptual definition of social cognition?

What is the conjunction error?

Jill fears she is more likely to die in a plane crash than in an automobile accident, even though she is statistically much more likely to die from the latter. Her irrational fear is most likely due to which heuristic?

When people are accurate in their judgments of people in certain contexts but not others, they are said to have what kind of accuracy?

When people expect excellence from other people, they can induce that excellence through their own behavior. This result is referred to as what?

What is the person positivity bias?

Because members of minority groups often stand out more, some people overestimate their frequency of criminal behavior. Which bias does this represent?

What are the three stages of inference making?

What is the difference between normative and descriptive models of decision-making?