Social Beliefs and Judgments

Question 1

Automatic processing

Answer 1

intuition or gut feeling; influences more of our actions

Question 2

System 1 is best known as

Answer 2

Automatic processing

Question 3

Controlled processing

Answer 3

slower way of thinking

Question 4

System 2 is best known as

Answer 4

controlled processing

Question 5

Embodied cognition

Answer 5

mutual Influences of bodily sensations on cognitive preferences and social judgments

Question 6

Feeling the room is colder when one is alone is best known as

Answer 6

embodied cognition

Question 7

Automatic thinking

Answer 7

schemas; expertise; snap judgments

Question 8

Dunning-Kruger effect

Answer 8

ignorance of one’s incompetence; occurs on relatively easy seeming tasks

Question 9

Availability heuristic

Answer 9

judges the possibility of things; whatever comes first to mind; commonplace

Question 10

Confirmation bias

Answer 10

search for information that confirms our perception

Question 11

Heuristic

Answer 11

thinking strategy; quick efficient judgments

Question 12

Rose colored glass

Answer 12

happy mood; the world seems friendlier

Question 13

Dark colored glass

Answer 13

gloomy mood; self-image becomes worse

Question 14

Overconfidence phenomenon

Answer 14

be more confident than correct; overestimate the accuracy of one’s beliefs

Question 15

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 15

a belief that leads to its own fulfillment

Question 16

Counterfactual thinking

Answer 16

imagining alternative scenarios; outcomes that might have happened but didn’t

Question 17

Priming

Answer 17

activating particular associations in memory; can influence another thought or action