social cognition

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what is social cognition?

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the area of social psychology that focuses on how people think and act in the social world

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schema

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a mental model of any of the various things we come across in our daily lives
ex: the dogs you see will bark

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heuristics

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mental shortcuts to help us categorize information

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representative heuristics

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judging the likelihood of whether or not something belongs within a category. ex: thinking someone is an athlete because they are muscular

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availability heuristic

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evaluate the likelihood of an event based on how easily instances of it come to mind. ex: k first letter, k third letter?

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thin-slice judgments

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detailed predictions based on small amounts of information

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planning fallacy

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tendency to underestimate how much time it will take to complete a task

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affective forecasting

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predictions of one’s future feelings

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impact bias

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tendency to overestimate intensity of future feelings

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durability bias

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tendency to overestimate the duration of positive and negative effects

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hot cognition

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mental processes influenced by desires and feelings. ex: getting a bad grade and having your reasoning be influenced by anger at yourself

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directional goals

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motivated to reach a particular outcome without processing information objectively

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motivated skepticism

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being skeptical of evidence that goes against what we believe

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need for closure

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desire to come to a firm conclusion

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mood-congruent theory

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tendency to recall memories based on current mood

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automaticity

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describing behaviors that are unintentional and uncontrollable

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chameleon effect

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tendency for individuals to unconsciously mimick the behaviors of others

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primed

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making information more cognitively accessible

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stereotypes

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general beliefs about about a group of people

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explicit attitude

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verbalized emotions and attitudes

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implicit attitude

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attitude that is not verbally expressed

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Implicit Association Test

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measuring how quickly a participant pairs a concept with an attribute

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evaluative priming task

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measures how quickly the participant labels the valence (i.e., positive or negative) of the attitude object when it appears immediately after a positive or negative image