Chapter 3: Social Beliefs & Judgments

Question 1

Priming

Answer 1

Awakening or activating of certain associations

Question 1

Automatic Processing

Answer 1

Impulsive, effortless, and without awareness (system 1)

Question 2

Controlled Processing

Answer 2

Reflective, deliberate, and conscious (system 2)

Question 3

Overconfidence Phenomenon

Answer 3

We are usually unaware of our errors

Question 4

Confirmation Bias

Answer 4

People tend not to seek information that might disprove what they belief, but instead tend to seek information which validates our beliefs

Question 5

Counterfactual Thinking

Answer 5

Mentally stimulating what might have been
Imagining worse alternatives to help us feel better

Question 6

Illusory Correlation

Answer 6

When we expect significant relationships, we easily associate random events

Question 7

Misinformation Effect

Answer 7

People incorporate misinformation in their memories

Question 8

Fundamental Attribution Error

Answer 8

Discounting of the situation

Question 9

Self Fulfilling Prophecies

Answer 9

Beliefs that lead to their own fulfillment

Question 10

Behavioural Confirmation

Answer 10

Erroneuous beliefs about the social world can induce others to confirm those beliefs
People who are believed to be lonely behave less sociably

Question 11

Rosy Retrospection

Answer 11

People recall mildly pleasant events more favourably than they experienced them