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

When people tend to focus on the properties of objects without consideration of the context, this is described as a(n) ___________ thinking style.

We can form impressions of people we interact with rather quickly and effortlessly.We do this by engaging in an automatic analysis of our environments, based on

When the psychologist asks, "Tell me the first thing that comes to mind," he/she is asking for the most _______ schema.

Based on the study by Harold Kelley (1950) presented in your text, if you were to describe yourself to a blind date as being witty, how would she be most likely to view a slightly sarcastic comment you make?

A friend is complaining about the requirement that she take a statistics and research methods course as part of her major.Describe to her at least two reasons that the course will make her a better thinker, not just a better psychology student.

You've rented the movie Sophie's Choice.There is a scene in which Sophie, a recent immigrant from Poland, is both surprised and amused that Americans have so many words for the concept "fast." She reports that in Polish, there is only one word.You've just read Chapter 3 (Social Cognition), and a friend asks you why the cultures differ in that regard.What would you say?

You stayed up all night cramming for this examination and didn't do as well as you had hoped."If only I had started studying sooner and gotten a good night's rest, I'd have done much better," you think to yourself.You have just engaged in

What is easily brought to mind may not be typical of the big picture.This is the problem with the

In the 1977 study regarding Donald using priming, the dependent variable was

In a study described in the textbook, participants memorized either the word reckless or the word adventurous before reading an ambiguous passage about Donald in which he was described as engaging in a number of recreational activities (e.g., driving in a demolition derby, white-water rafting) in which he had risked injury and even death.This method was used to study the concept of

The text discusses three reasons why schemas can become accessible.Which of the following is NOT one of these reasons?

Adele is from France, where rabbits are eaten regularly.She can tell you the most tender part of the rabbit, how long to cook one, and how big a rabbit you would need to feed five people.Marsha is from the United States, where rabbits are pets, and bring colored eggs to children in the spring.She hasn't a clue about how to cook one, even if she wanted to.This example best illustrates

You are taking a university course with a combined graduate and undergraduate enrollment.You know that there are many more undergraduate than graduate students enrolled in this course.There is a woman who looks to be about thirty sitting next to you.If you use only the base rate to guess her student status, you would guess that she is a(n) ________ student because ________.

Researchers had participants memorize a number of words before reading an ambiguous passage about a character named Donald.The words participants read influenced how they interpreted Donald's somewhat ambiguous behavior.The take-home message of this study is that thoughts have to be ________ before they affect our impressions of the social world.

Why do we use schemas?

The authors of your text suggest that with respect to traditional gender differences in scholastic performance, one causal factor may be

If you were hoping that other research participants would leave you money, according to research by Shariff and Norenzayan (2007), you would hope they were primed with

Watson, the computer, won his game of Jeopardy! against two very skilled opponents.However, he would not do very well at

In order for priming to work successfully, thoughts need to be both

Instead of considering every single brand and variety of pasta sauce at the grocery store, most people make quick decisions about which one to purchase.This is an example of how people use