chapter 2 Flashcards
(18 cards)
conditioning
operant learning
associational learning
occurs when an object or event come to be associated with a natural response
(pavlov)
prefrontal cortex
stores schemas that help us interpret the actions of others and plan our own actions
accomodation
the changing of beliefs on the basis of new information to better fit with our beliefs ( causes the confirmation bias)
behavioral methods
measures that directly assess what people do as an indicator of their thoughts and feelings
independent variable
the researcher manipulates this
dependant variable
the variable that is measured
operant conditioning
learning from the consequences of our actions
automatic cognition
thinking outside of our awareness
controlled cognition
concious thinking
salience
what aspect of a scene is the most noticable or most salient
representativeness heuristic
the assumptions that groups of people have a stereotypical representative
cognitive accesibility
the extent to which a schema is active and availible
false consesnsus bias
overestimation of the amount of people hold the same beliefs as you
counterfactual thinking
our attitude depends on how something lived up to our expectations
attribute substitution
we tend to go off of vibes rather than the facts of the situation
cognitive repraisal
reframing a situation to feel better about the outcome
affective forcasting
predicting how future events will make us feel