Lecture 7

Question 1

When verbalizing, people may focus on
salient, easily namable, but wrong features. What are some examples of these?

Answer 1

E.g., different features are diagnostic when distinguishing Asian vs Caucasian faces.

E.g., eye color more diagnostic for Caucasian than Asian faces.

Question 2

Why is it that conscious thinking sucks when it comes to recognizing faces?

Answer 2

“Verbalizing” moves people away
from using holistic
(configural,
relational) processing and similarity-based categorization. These
holistic strategies are better with some stimuli (like faces).

Question 3

What were the results of the mushroom test?

Answer 3

Verbalization hurts only when it clashes with the preferred processing strategy.

Question 4

Basketball, soccer, and music ranking predictions get __________ with
more thinking

Answer 4

Worse

Question 5

What were the results of the apartment experiment?

Answer 5

Those who picked unconsciously were more likely to pick the best apartment.

Question 6

Who endorsed a technique of “third-party endorsement” and “story planting?”

Answer 6

Bernay