Unit 2

Question 1

Passes Video

Answer 1

You are instructed to count how many times the white shirt people pass the ball (16) but as you’re focused on that you may have missed the gorilla coming in, one of the black shirt people leave, and the curtain behind them changes colors.

Question 2

Selective Listening

Answer 2

people focus attention on one auditory stream of information while deliberately ignoring other auditory information

Question 3

Inattentional Blindness

Answer 3

The failure to notice a fully visible, but unexpected, object or event when attention is devoted to something else

Question 4

Inattentional Deafness

Answer 4

fail to notice an unexpected sound or voice when attention is devoted to other aspects of a scene

Question 5

Misinformation Effect

Answer 5

A memory error caused by exposure to incorrect information between the original event (e.g., a crime) and later memory test (e.g., an interview, lineup, or day in court).

Question 6

Schema

Answer 6

A memory template, created through repeated exposure to a particular class of objects or events.

Question 7

False Memories

Answer 7

Memory for an event that never actually occurred, implanted by experimental manipulation or other means

Question 8

Memory Video

Answer 8

A woman and her husband are walking down (x) street and the wife notices President Kennedy’s wife waving to her. She waves back but it turns out the president’s wife was waving for a cab. It turns out, that was the recollection of the husband, whom had not been there at all. He can so vividly remember the way things felt and sounded but he wasn’t there at all. It turns out that his wife was walking down (y) street and there was a group of people who witnessed it, making the wife feel embarrassed to have waved back at the taxi woman.

Question 9

Eyewitness Videos (1&2)

Answer 9

A lady was raped and insisted she took the time to memorize his face. Ronald Cotton was identified. He tried to give himself an alibi and he accidentally gave them the wrong one. The lady felt ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN. Ronald was sentenced to life after 40 minutes and the lady felt relieved! Bobby Pool, who was often mistaken for Cotton, starts attending the same prison as him. Cotton got another trial and the lady was MAD. He was convicted AGAIN. After hearing about DNA, Cotton insists that a test be done. Pool was convicted because the DNA matched. The lady felt guilty and shameful. Cotton forgave her and decided to move on.

Question 10

Self-efficacy

Answer 10

The belief that you are able to effectively perform the tasks needed to attain a valued goal

Influence self-esteem because how you feel about yourself overall is influenced by your confidence in your ability to perform well in areas that are important to you and to achieve valued goals

Question 11

Self-Esteem

Answer 11

How much you like or “esteem” yourself—to what extent you value yourself. Self-efficacy refers to your self-confidence to perform well and to achieve in specific areas of life such as school, work, and relationships.

Question 12

Self-Report Measure

Answer 12

A type of questionnaire in which participants answer questions whose answers correspond to numerical values that can be added to create an overall index of some construct

Question 13

Task-Specific Measures of Self-Esteem

Answer 13

Measures that ask about self-efficacy beliefs for a particular task (e.g., athletic self-efficacy, academic self-efficacy)

Question 14

Verbal Persuasion

Answer 14

When trusted people influence your self-efficacy (for better or worse) by either encouraging or discouraging you about your ability to succeed

Question 15

When does self-efficacy form and who influences it?

Answer 15

Self-efficacy begins to develop in very young children. It is not constant, it can change and grow as an individual has different experiences.

We are influenced by:
Our parents’ self-efficacies
Adolescents’ friends

Question 16

Vicarious Performances

Answer 16

When seeing other people succeed or fail leads to changes in self-efficacy

Question 17

Performance Experiences

Answer 17

When past successes or failures lead to changes in self-efficacy

Question 18

Self-Regulation

Answer 18

The complex process through which people control their thoughts, emotions, and actions

Question 19

Collective-Efficacy

Answer 19

The shared beliefs among members of a group about the group’s ability to effectively perform the tasks needed to attain a valued goal

Question 20

Collective-efficacy effects

Answer 20

Romantic relationships and teamwork

Question 21

Teacher’s Pet Video

Answer 21

Various children are asked “Why are you the teacher’s pet?” some responses:
Personality, can count up to 20 with out fingers
I have angelic work in school, its better than A+
We are not the teacher’s pet, who is your source? Edward, someone out there likes us
I am very bright and I am brilliant
Cuz I have my teeth out maybe?
When they said something funny I laughed
I have clean hair and face and have a nice body shape
I’m only 6 and everyone thinks I am beautiful, I have jewelry I don’t even need to wear

Question 22

Idol Video

Answer 22

Jessica’s friends are there to support her (with her face on their shirts), saying she is going to be the next American Idol. Jessica performs pretty good (In my opinion) but Simon tells her she needs work and she isn’t ready. Jessica claims that Simon told her that she sang well and that she is better than anyone else there

Question 23

Spotlight Effect

Answer 23

We think people are looking at us, but in reality they probably aren’t

Question 24

False-Consensus Effect

Answer 24

Our opinions and behaviors are more common than they actually are because we often associate with those like us. If it makes us feel good then we feel false uniqueness when it is flipped

Question 25

Depression and Explanatory Style

Answer 25

Chance, luck, or a fluke if something goes right and internal blame is something goes wrong

Question 26

Limits to Positive Thinking

Answer 26

There is a limit (complicated) - We can’t just wish - Can’t just never give up Too much credit and blaming others - Groups, merit raises, relationships Narcissism- All about you and how awesome you are Unrealistic optimism/optimism bias - I’m so good at driving, I don’t need a seatbelt Overconfidence

Question 27

Social Comparison

Answer 27

The process by which people understand their own ability or condition by mentally comparing themselves to others

Question 28

Upward Comparison

Answer 28

Making mental comparisons to people who are perceived to be superior on the standard of comparison. Can threaten our self-evaluation and jeopardize self-esteem.

Question 29

Downward Comparison

Answer 29

Making mental comparisons with people who are perceived to be inferior on the standard of comparison. May boost our self-evaluation on relevant dimensions Self-enhancement effect- The finding that people can boost their own self-evaluations by comparing themselves to others who rank lower on a particular comparison standard

Question 30

Counterfactual Thinking

Answer 30

Mentally comparing actual events with fantasies of what might have been possible in alternative scenarios

Question 31

Consequences of Social Comparison

Answer 31

Impact self-esteem Feelings of regret Feelings of envy Make us more competitive

Question 32

Self-Evaluation Maintenance Model

Answer 32

A model of social comparison that emphasizes one’s closeness to the comparison target, the relative performance of that target person, and the relevance of the comparison behavior to one’s self-concept

Question 33

Social comparison and its effects on self-evaluation depend on:

Answer 33

Personality and Individual Differences

Question 34

Personality

Answer 34

A person’s relatively stable patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior.

Question 35

Individual Differences

Answer 35

Psychological traits, abilities, aptitudes and tendencies that vary from person to person

Question 36

Mastery Goals

Answer 36

Goals that are focused primarily on learning, competence, and self-development. These are contrasted with “performance goals” that are focused on the quality of a person’s performance

Question 37

Fixed Mindset

Answer 37

The belief that personal qualities such as intelligence are traits that cannot be developed

Question 38

Growth Mindset

Answer 38

The belief that personal qualities, such as intelligence, can be developed through effort and practice.

Question 39

Local-Dominance Effect

Answer 39

People are generally more influenced by social comparison when that comparison is personally relevant rather than broad and general

Question 40

Situational factors

Answer 40

Number of people Local-Dominance Effect Proximity to a Standard Social Category Lines

Question 41

Proximity to a Standard

Answer 41

The relative closeness or distance from a given comparison standard. The further from the standard a person is, the less important he or she considers the standard. When a person is closer to the standard he/she is more likely to be competitive

Question 42

Social Category Lines

Answer 42

Any group in which membership is defined by similarities between its members. Examples include religious, ethnic, and athletic groups

Question 43

Frog Pond Effect

Answer 43

The theory that a person’s comparison group can affect their evaluations of themselves. Specifically, people have a tendency to have lower self-evaluations when comparing themselves to higher performing groups

Question 44

Dunning Kruger Effect

Answer 44

The tendency for unskilled people to be overconfident in their ability and highly skilled people to underestimate their ability

Question 45

Social Cognition

Answer 45

The study of how people think about the social world.

Question 46

Heuristics

Answer 46

A mental shortcut or rule of thumb that reduces complex mental problems to more simple rule-based decisions

Question 47

Representativeness Heuristic

Answer 47

A heuristic in which the likelihood of an object belonging to a category is evaluated based on the extent to which the object appears similar to one’s mental representation of the category

Question 48

Availability Heuristic

Answer 48

A heuristic in which the frequency or likelihood of an event is evaluated based on how easily instances of it come to mind.

Question 49

Planning Fallacy

Answer 49

A cognitive bias in which one underestimates how long it will take to complete a task

Question 50

Affective Forecasting

Answer 50

Predicting how one will feel in the future after some event or decision

Question 51

Impact Bias

Answer 51

A bias in affective forecasting in which one overestimates the strength or intensity of emotion one will experience after some event

Question 52

Durability Bias

Answer 52

A bias in affective forecasting in which one overestimates for how long one will feel an emotion (positive or negative) after some event

Question 53

Envy Video

Answer 53

Twin brothers compete for everything, eventually leading one to go to space and the other to not. Envy often leads to guilt. College students were put in a test, trying to give their friends hints for word association. Their friends purposefully gave hard words and hence, in return gave them hard ones too. Over 75% of the participants didn’t help their friends.

Question 54

Syrup Video

Answer 54

They put syrup from Vermont in a bottle, labeled it from California. They were told the syrup is indeed from California. Despite that this maple syrup was actual maple syrup from Vermont, everyone who tried it DENIED it

Question 55

Ariely Video

Answer 55

Ariely wants to write a “cookbook” but it is highly suggested that he first write about his research. Decision illusions, even after proven, are still indistinguishable. It is hard to believe in the influences that affect our decisions (FAE). Doctor scenario, ad scenario, Tim and Jerry scenario.

Question 56

Loss Aversion

Answer 56

it is more painful to lose than it is pleasurable to win

Question 57

Gilbert Video

Answer 57

We gained our frontal lobes (especially the prefrontal cortex), allowing us to imagine and have mental processes. Things impact our life a lot less than we think. We have a “psychological immune system” and happiness is able to be synthesized. TED talk man jokes about the key to true happiness (ex. Get kicked out by the Beatles, commit a book scam and lose all of your money and power, spend a lifetime in jail for a crime you didn’t commit, ect). Amnesia patients end up also liking the Monet paintings they own and dislike the paintings they don’t own. Our psychological system works best when we are stuck. We make better of the things we cannot change. We have a tendency to be happier when not given a choice. Some things are better than others but when there is too much pressure from them, we are unhappy. Our longings and worries are overblown because we have the ability to manufacture the commodity we are chasing when we choose experience.