Chapter 4: Social Cognition

Question 1

Primacy

Answer 1

The tendency for information that is presented early to have greater impact on judgement that information that is presented later.

Question 2

Self-Schemas

Answer 2

our memory, inferences, and information about ourselves

Question 3

Base rate Fallacy

Answer 3

an error in which people ignore the numerical frequency in estimating how likely an event is to occur

Question 4

Counterfactual thinking/simulation

Answer 4

the tendency to imagine alternate outcomes to various events, which can in turn influence how people experience both positive and negative events

Question 5

Perceptual confirmation

Answer 5

the tendency for people to see things in line with their own beliefs and preconceptions

Question 6

Field dependent

Answer 6

having more difficulty identifying an embedded figure in a larger background but having greater ability to perceive an image as one holistic figure

Question 7

Field Independent

Answer 7

Having the ability to identify an embedded figure and separate it from a larger background