Chapter 3

Question 1

The manner in which we interpret,analyze,remember, and use information about the social world

Answer 1

Social Cognition

Question 2

Simple rules for making complex decisions or drawing inferences in a rapid manner and seemingly effortless manner.

Answer 2

Heuristics

Question 3

Mental frameworks that allow us to organized large amount of formation in efficient manner.

Answer 3

Schema

Question 4

Where the demands on our cognitive system are greater than its capacity.

Answer 4

Information Overload

Question 5

Where the correct answer is difficult to know or would take a great deal of effort to determine.

Answer 5

Conditions of uncertainty

Question 6

A strategy for making judgements based on the extent to which current stimuli or events resemble other stimuli or categories.

Answer 6

Representative Heuristics

Question 7

Summary of the common attributes possessed by members of a category

Answer 7

Prototype

Question 8

A strategy for making judgements on the basis of how easily specific kinds of information can be brought to mind, the greater its impact on subsequent judgements or decisions.

Answer 8

Availability Heuristic

Question 9

Mental frameworks that help us to organize social information

Answer 9

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Question 10

It is a process through which we recover information from memory in order to use it in some manner.

Answer 10

Retrieval

Question 11

A situation that occurs when stimuli or events increase the availability in memory or consciousness of specific types of information held in memory.

Answer 11

Priming

Question 12

It refers to the fact that the effects of the schemas tend to persist until they are somehow expressed in thought or behavior and only then do their effects decreases.

Answer 12

Unpriming

Question 13

•Schemas are often resistant to change- they show a strong PERSEVERANCE EFFECT, remaining unchanged even in the face of contradictory information

Answer 13

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Question 14

SCHEMAS can be sometimes be SELF-FULFILLING. They influence our responses to the social world in ways that makes it consistent with the schema.

*the belief of a person at the start and it really happend in the end. its what you call self-fulfilling.

Answer 14

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Question 15

What are the potential sources of error in social cognition.

Answer 15

1. Basic “TILT” in social thought
2. Rocky past vs Golden Future
3. Situation-Specific Sources of error in Social Cognition.

Question 16

• People tend to “see the world through rose-colored glasses.
• A powerful predisposition to overlook risks and expect things to turn out well.
• For example, most people believe that they are more likely than other to get a good job, have a happy marriage, and live to a ripe old age, but less likely to experience negative outcomes.

Answer 16

OPTIMISTIC BIAS

Question 17

The tendency to have more confidence in the accuracy of our own judgements than is reasonable.

Answer 17

OVERCONFIDENCE BARRIER

Question 18

the tendency to believe that we can get more done in a given period of time that we actually can, or that a given job will take less time than it really will

Answer 18

Planning Fallacy