Social Cognition

Question 1

ABC’s of psych

Answer 1

Affect: +/- feelings toward something
Behavioral: +/- actions
Cognitive: +/- beliefs about something

Question 2

object/event comes to be associated with a natural response

Answer 2

associational learning

Question 3

schema

Answer 3

the knowledge representations about person, group or situation

Question 4

where are schemes stored

Answer 4

prefrontal cortex

Question 5

schema accommodation

Answer 5

altering/changing schemas with new info

Question 6

schema assimilation

Answer 6

fitting new information into previous schema

Question 7

conformation bias

Answer 7

people seek out and favor info that confirms expectations and beliefs

Question 8

reconstructive memory bias

Answer 8

we remever tings better that match our current beliefs and reshape memories to better align with current beliefs

Question 9

self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 9

occurs when expectations about others lead us to behave toward those in ways that make our expectations come true

Question 10

postive punishment

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adding something undesirable to decrease behavior

Question 11

negative punishment

Answer 11

removing something desirable to decrease behavior

Question 12

positive renforcement

Answer 12

adding something desirable to increase a behavior

Question 13

negative renforcement

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removing something undesirable to increase behavior

ex. noise when not wearing seatbelt

Question 14

illusory correlation

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perception of a relationship where none exits, or perception of a stronger relationship than actually exist

Question 15

loss aversion

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more likely to take risk when we think we are going to lose something

Question 16

confirmation bias

Answer 16

only searching for information that confirms our current bias

Question 17

hindsight bias

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the idea we thought we knew something all along

Question 18

availability heuristic

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metal shortcut that relies on immediate examples that comes to a persons mind

ex. more terrorist attacks than car accidents in middle east

Question 19

bias blind spot

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con notice other bias but not own

Question 20

representative heuristic

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used when making judgments about the probability of an event

Question 21

planning fallacy

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underestimate/overestimate time needed to complete task

Question 22

impact bias

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over estimate how we will feel about something in the future

Question 23

durability bias

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how long you think you will feel happy/sad about and event

*greater for negative events than positive
never get over persons funeral

Question 24

hot cognition

Answer 24

persons feelings affected by their emotional state

Question 25

mood congruent memory

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recalling +/- memories will make you feel how you did in the memory

Question 26

coulda, woulda, shoulda

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counterfactual thinking

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door-in-the face

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presenting something huge that a person wont accept so the accept smaller thing, so other person feels compromise is made

Question 28

foot-in-the door

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getting a person to agree to a large request by first setting them up by having that person agree to a modest request

Question 29

framing effect

Answer 29

people react to a particular choice in different ways depending on how it is presented ex. 80% success rate or 20% mortality rate