Blink Midterm

Question 1

What is the book “Blink” about?

Answer 1

Intuitive repulsion, the ability to understand the essence of something in a single glance

Question 2

What happened in the Iowa experiment?

Answer 2

The gamblers figured the game out before they realized they had figured the game out and they began making the necessary adjustments along before they were consciously aware of what adjustments they were supposed to be making

Question 3

What are the two different strategies our brain uses to make sense of situations?

Answer 3

1. The one we are familiar with, the conscious strategy
2. The “fast and frugal” strategy, a series of instant calculations done by your brain before conscious thought took place

Question 4

Adaptive unconsciousness

Answer 4

The part of our brain that leaps to conclusions. A kind of giant computer that quickly and quietly processes a lot of the data we need in order to keep them functioning as human beings

Question 5

Wilson says we toggle back and forth between our _______ and ______ modes of thinking

Answer 5

conscious; unconscious

Question 6

What was the result of the study done by Nalani Ambady?

Answer 6

A person watching a two-second silent clip of a teacher he or she has never met will reach conclusions about how good that teacher is that are very similar to those of a student who has sat in the teacher’s class for an entire semester

Question 7

What is the first task of “Blink”?

Answer 7

To convince you of a simple facts: decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately

Question 8

What is “Blink” also interested in?

Answer 8

Those moments when our instincts betray us

Question 9

What is the second task of “Blink”?

Answer 9

Answering the question: “when should we trust our instincts and when should we be wary of them?”

Question 10

What is the third task of “Blink”?

Answer 10

To convince you that our snap judgements and first impressions can be educated and controlled

Question 11

The love lab

Answer 11

A lab created by Joh Gottman where he records couples having a conversation and he is able to predict with 95 percent accuracy whether or not the couple will still be married fifteen years later

Question 12

How many minutes of footage did Sybil Carrere discover could predict if a couple would divorce or not?

Answer 12

3 minutes

Question 13

Thin-slicing

Answer 13

Refers to the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very narrow slices of experience

Question 14

Can a marriage really be understood in one sitting?

Answer 14

Yes it can

Question 15

What did Gottman find in regards to the first interaction of a relationship?

Answer 15

That patterns seen from the first interaction will persist throughout the whole relationship

Question 16

Positive sentiment override

Answer 16

Where positive emotion overrides irritability, like a buffer

Question 17

Negative sentiment override

Answer 17

People draw lasting conclusions about each other

Question 18

The Four Horsemen

Answer 18

Defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.

Question 19

Even within the Four Horsemen, in fact, there is one emotion that he considers the most important of all:

Answer 19

Contempt

Question 20

having someone you love express contempt toward you is so stressful that it begins to affect the functioning of your _____ _______.

Answer 20

immune system

Question 21

Big Five Inventory

Answer 21

a highly respected, multi-item questionnaire that measures people across five dimensions. Extra version, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness

Question 22

Extraversion.

Answer 22

Are you sociable or retiring?Fun-loving or reserved?

Question 23

Agreeableness

Answer 23

Are you trusting or suspicious? Helpful or uncooperative?

Question 24

Conscientiousness

Answer 24

Are you organized or disorganized? Self-disciplined or weak willed?

Question 25

Emotional stability

Answer 25

Are you worried or calm? Insecure or secure?

Question 26

Openness

Answer 26

Are you imaginative or down-to-earth? Independent or conforming?

Question 27

Are our close friends able to rank us accurately using the Big Five?

Answer 27

Yes

Question 28

Do people sue doctors they like?

Answer 28

On average, no

Question 29

coup d’oeil

Answer 29

translated from the French, means “power of the glance”: the ability to immediately see and make sense of the battlefield.

Question 30

double-fault

Answer 30

In tennis, players are given two chances to successfully hit a serve, and if they miss on their second chance, they are said to double-fault

Question 31

priming experiment

Answer 31

The test devised by John Bargh where you create 4 word sentences and it makes your adaptive unconscious think about the words you had been primed to think about and you will act that way

Question 32

Trivial Pursuit study

Answer 32

groups of students answer forty-two fairly demanding ques- tions from the board game Trivial Pursuit. Half were asked to take five minutes beforehand to think about what it would mean to be a professor and write down everything that came to mind. Those students got 55.6 percent of the questions right. The other half of the students were asked to first sit and think about soccer hooligans. They ended up getting 42.6 percent of the Trivial Pursuit questions right.

Question 33

Graduate Record Examination study

Answer 33

When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest question- naire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement—and the number of items they got right was cut in half.