chapter 2

Question 1

conditioning

Answer 1

operant learning

Question 2

associational learning

Answer 2

occurs when an object or event come to be associated with a natural response
(pavlov)

Question 3

prefrontal cortex

Answer 3

stores schemas that help us interpret the actions of others and plan our own actions

Question 4

accomodation

Answer 4

the changing of beliefs on the basis of new information to better fit with our beliefs ( causes the confirmation bias)

Question 5

behavioral methods

Answer 5

measures that directly assess what people do as an indicator of their thoughts and feelings

Question 6

independent variable

Answer 6

the researcher manipulates this

Question 7

dependant variable

Answer 7

the variable that is measured

Question 8

operant conditioning

Answer 8

learning from the consequences of our actions

Question 9

automatic cognition

Answer 9

thinking outside of our awareness

Question 10

controlled cognition

Answer 10

concious thinking

Question 11

salience

Answer 11

what aspect of a scene is the most noticable or most salient

Question 12

representativeness heuristic

Answer 12

the assumptions that groups of people have a stereotypical representative

Question 13

cognitive accesibility

Answer 13

the extent to which a schema is active and availible

Question 14

false consesnsus bias

Answer 14

overestimation of the amount of people hold the same beliefs as you

Question 15

counterfactual thinking

Answer 15

our attitude depends on how something lived up to our expectations

Question 16

attribute substitution

Answer 16

we tend to go off of vibes rather than the facts of the situation

Question 17

cognitive repraisal

Answer 17

reframing a situation to feel better about the outcome

Question 18

affective forcasting

Answer 18

predicting how future events will make us feel