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

Christopher is considering breaking up with his high-school sweetheart.He spends many hours weighing the benefits and drawbacks, he asks his friends for advice, and he thinks about it further before coming to his decision.In this case, Christopher is using

Marco is an athlete and plays three different types of sports.When he sees Emma in a track suit, he assumes that she is an athlete as well.The reason this happens is that Marco's schema is

Applying the lessons learned from Rosenthal and Jacobson, if you wanted your child to succeed, what would be the best nickname for him?

Counterfactual reasoning is like controlled thinking in that it is ________, but it can be like automatic thinking in that it may be ________.

________ are the cognitive structures we use to organize our knowledge of the social world.

Recall that Harold Kelley (1950) told some college students that their guest lecturer was a warm person, and others that he was a cold person.The visitor then lectured for twenty minutes.After the lecture, those students who expected the lecturer to be warm

Eva wants to raise a lot of money for her cat rescue group.Based on the research by Shariff and Norenzayan (2007), the best strategy for doing this involves

Based on the study by Nisbett and his colleagues on statistical reasoning across four disciplines, which person would you count on to solve a statistical reasoning problem accurately?

What is the take-home message from the research regarding the effects of generating different numbers of examples of behavior?

Fidan wrecked his dad's car.When his dad got home from work, Fidan met him at the door with a cold beer and his favorite magazine.The smell from his dad's favorite meal was wafting through the house, and his dad's favorite CD was playing.Fidan is trying to use ________ to get his father to think of him as a good, responsible son before he tells him about the car.

According to the authors of your text, what is the primary reason that people often rely on a variety of mental shortcuts? We're

In Kelley's 1950 research about the guest lecturer, the dependent variable was the

The availability heuristic is based on the principle of using ________ as a cue to probability.

The news often points out girls' relatively poor academic performance on standardized tests compared to boys' performance on those tests.Based on the research presented in this chapter, these gender differences may be due in part to

When most Americans walk into a fast food restaurant chain, they know they should walk up to the counter to order, pay, and pick up their food, rather than sit down and wait to be served.This knowledge of how to act in such a situation is called

It is ________ to miss a bus by five minutes than to miss it by an hour because ________.

Recall that Harold Kelley (1950) told some college students that their guest instructor was a warm person, and others that he was a cold person.Students who were told that the guest instructor was a warm person evaluated him more positively and participated more in class discussion than did students who were told that he was cold.These results support the idea that schemas are

Based on your reading of Chapter 3 (Social Cognition), who would you predict would be more frustrated: Katie, who missed an "A" by one point, or James, who missed an "A" by five points?

According to the authors of your text, a good metaphor of human thinking is to consider people to be

Zuzanna had a hard time remembering the names of streets when she traveled because they were in a different language.In addition, the buildings did not look like what she was used to, so she got lost several times.These problems emphasize the role of schemas in