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Chapter 3 (Midterms) Flashcards

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1
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2 Brain Systems

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System 1
System 2

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Brain system that is intuitive, automatic, unconscious, and fast way of thinking

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System 1

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Brain system that is deliberate, controlled, conscious, and slower way of thinking.

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System 2

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2 powers of intuition

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Automatic processing
Controlled processing

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“Implicit” thinking that is effortless, habitual, and without awareness; roughly corresponds
to “intuition.” Also known as
System 1.

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Automatic processing

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“Explicit” thinking that is deliberate, reflective, and conscious. Also known as
System 2.

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Controlled processing

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Activating particular associations in memory; Experiments show that even without awareness, it can influence another thought, or even an action; first impression

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Priming

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The mutual influence of bodily sensations on cognitive preferences and
social judgments.

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Embodied cognition

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Samples of automatic processing

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Schemas
Emotional reactions
Expertise
Blindsight

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Mental concepts/templates that intuitively guide our perceptions and interpretations.

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Schemas

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Often nearly instantaneous, happens
before deliberate thinking; Thalamus to Amygdala

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Emotional reactions

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Expert skill in a particular field

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Expertise

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Ability to detect & respond to visual
stimuli w/o having perceived it.

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Blindsight

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Automatic processing happens where?

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Offscreen

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Tendency to be more confident than correct —to overestimate the accuracy of one’s beliefs

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Overconfidence phenomenon

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  • A tendency to search for information that confirms one’s preconceptions.
  • Appears in System 1
  • Helps explain why our self-images are so remarkably stable.
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Confirmation bias

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When our default reaction is to look for information consistent with our
presupposition.

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Snap judgment

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Thinking strategy that enables
quick, efficient judgments; simple, efficient
thinking strategies that enable quick, efficient
judgements; enable us to make routine decisions with minimal effort.

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Heuristics

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The tendency to presume, sometimes despite contrary odds, that
someone or something belongs to a particular group if resembling
(representing) a typical member.

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Representative heuristic

20
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A cognitive rule that judges the likelihood of things in terms of their
availability in memory. If instances of something come readily to mind, we
presume it to be commonplace.

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Availability heuristic

21
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Vivid, memorable—and therefore cognitively
available—events influence our perception of the social world; often leads people to fear the wrong things

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Probability neglect

22
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Imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that might have happened, but didn’t.
- Easily imagined, cognitively available events also influence our experiences of guilt, regret, frustration, and relief.

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Counterfactual thinking

23
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Perception of a relationship where none exists, or perception of a stronger relationship than actually exists.

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Illusory correlation

24
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The statistical tendency for extreme scores or extreme behavior to return toward one’s average

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Regression towards the average

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Perceiving the other party against their views

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Political perception

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Persistence of one’s initial conceptions, such as when the basis for one’s belief is discredited but an explanation of why the belief might be true survives.

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Belief perseverance

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Incorporating “misinformation” into one’s memory of the event, after witnessing an event and receiving misleading information about it

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Misinformation effect

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Recalling mildly pleasant events more favorably than experienced.

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Rosy Retrospection

29
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People whose attitudes have changed often insist that they have always
felt much as they now feel.

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Reconstructing our past attitudes

30
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Memory construction enables us to revise our own histories

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Reconstructing our past behaviour

31
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Mistakenly attributing a behavior to the wrong source.

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Misattribution

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The theory of how people explain others’ behavior—for example, by attributing it either to internal dispositions (enduring traits, motives, and attitudes) or to external situations

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Attribution theory

33
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3 techniques for reducing overconfidence bias.

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Prompt feedback

Making people think of reasons their judgements might be wrong

Encouraging individuals to consider disconfirming information

34
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We revise the past to suit our present views. Thus, we underreport bad
behavior and overreport good behavior.

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Totalitarian Ego

35
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2 types of attribution

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Dispositional Attribution
Situational Attribution

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Attributing behavior to the person’s disposition and traits

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Dispositional Attribution

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Attributing behavior to the environment.

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Situational Attribution

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We often infer that other people’s actions are indicative of their intentions and dispositions

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INFERRING TRAITS

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An effortless, automatic interference of a trait after exposure to someone’s behavior.

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Spontaneous Trait Inference

40
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The tendency for observers to underestimate situational influences & overestimate dispositional influences upon others’ behavior.

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FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR

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Attribution theorists have pointed out that we observe others from a different perspective than we observe ourselves

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PERSPECTIVE & SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

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WHY DO WE MAKE THE ATTRIBUTION ERROR?
(2)

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PERSPECTIVE & SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

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Beliefs that lead to its own fulfillment

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SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECIES

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A type of self-fulfilling prophecy whereby people’s social expectations lead them to behave in ways that cause others to confirm their expectations.

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Behavioral confirmation

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