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

A teenager wants to borrow the family car to go to an out-of-town concert.Her parents resist the idea.Based on the results of the research study on the effects of generating different numbers of examples of behavior described in your text, the teenager in question is most likely to view her parents as stubborn and unreasonable when they say to her,

How are self-fulfilling prophecies and schemas related?

Ms.Honeywell is an elementary school teacher who maintains that in her thirty-five years of experience, boys just tend to do better at math than girls.Recently, she has read a number of studies that show that girls and boys actually have about the same level of math ability.Based on information about how teachers create and sustain self-fulfilling prophecies, what is Ms.Honeywell most likely to think about the study results?

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?

Consider information from the authors of your text about the availability heuristic.If you wanted to improve customer satisfaction survey ratings for your company, which of the following would you ask customers in terms of their suggestions for improvement?

When you meet your new roommate for the first time, he is wearing glasses, listening to classical music, and reading a copy of the New Yorker Review of Books.You think, "Well, maybe rooming with an intellectual this year will be good for me." You instantly categorized your roommate as an intellectual on the basis of your

When is conscious thought superior to letting distraction influence a decision?

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?

How reasonable is it for someone to rely on the representativeness heuristic to make a quick judgment?

Research by Kahneman and Tversky (1973) presented by the authors of your text found that people do not use base rate information sufficiently, and pay more attention to

What is automatic thinking, and what are the two major types of automatic thinking that people use?

What effect does use of automatic versus controlled thinking have on the quality of our reasoning? Overall, how good are people as social thinkers?

Schemas are most like which of the following?

When Ashley first starts typing, she uses the "hunt and peck" method and finds typing very effortful.Now, after taking a typing class, she feels like her papers practically type themselves once she figures out what she wants to say.This change in her typing reflects a shift from

Although there are only a few runners on your college track team, you see a woman on campus who has the physique of a runner.You decide that she's a member of the track team.Your conclusion is based on

Explain some of the differences in social cognition between Eastern Asian and Western cultures.

In the research presented in the textbook, people who were asked to provide _____ examples rated themselves as more assertive than people who were asked to provide ______ examples.

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?

What are schemas, and why are they often adaptive?

In the self-fulfilling prophecy, a perceiver has a(n) ________ that affects the ________ of the target of perception.