Lecture 6 Flashcards
(20 cards)
What are some examples of automaticity in daily life?
- Any complex skill moves from controlled to automatic
- Cocktail party effect
- Stroop effect
In the stroop effect, word reading is more ________ thank ink color naming.
Automatic
In the GRE problems experiment, what did the experimental group have to do?
Count the word “time” in Time After Time.
What were the results of the GRE problems test?
Those with the cognitive load didn’t solve as many problems as the control group.
Was the Twitter experiment an example of the benefits of deliberation or intuition?
Deliberation.
People with higher Cognitive reflection share ___________________
more trustworthy news sources.
What were the results in the Willis and Todorov trait judgments test?
Even after 100 ms exposure of the face, there was a strong correlation between time-constrained trait judgments from facial appearance and judgments made in the absence of time constraints.
What was the main point behind the 100 ms face experiment?
as minimal an exposure as 100 ms is sufficient for people to make a specific trait inference from a stranger’s face.
What were the results of Exp 1in Todorov’s politician test?
These findings show that people make highly differentiated trait inferences from facial appearance and that these inferences have selective effects on decisions.
In other words, their inferences that they made about the faces predicted their votes.
What were the results of Exp 2 in Todorov’s politician test?
- Judgments based on 1 sec exposure to faces predicted 67.6% of the
actual Senate races. - The correlation between competence judgments and differences in
votes was 0.46 (P < 0.001)
What were the results of the Swiss children election experiment?
Swiss Children can “predict” the winner from the run-off stages of the 2002 French parliamentary election.
What were the measures in the poster study?
Choice of poster and post-choice satisfaction (is your poster still on the wall?)
What were the results of the poster experiment?
Post-choice satisfaction was lower in the analyze reason group.
What were the results of the “Why-do-I-love-thee” study?
Those asked to provide reasons are later less satisfied and more likely to break-up.
What were the results of the dive test?
The control (did not list reasons) was closer to the judges than those that did give reasons. Therefore, they were more accurate.
What were the results of the jam study?
After analyzing reasons, participants chose worse jams (as rated by taste experts from Consumer Reports).
What was the procedure of the wine study?
- Experts/non-experts sample two varieties of red wine.
- Some participants verbalize, others just taste.
- Recognition test with four wines
(Which two wines did you sample earlier?)
What were the results of the wine study?
- For non-experts, wine recognition was worse
after verbalization. - Verbalization focused them on few features.
- Experts were not
affected by verbalization.
Subjects who were asked to write a description of the face, were _____________
at picking the right person out of the lineup
Worse
People who “describe” switch from an effective holistic __________ recognition
strategy to less effective ___________feature-based recognition strategy
Global, local
