Social Cognition Flashcards
Social cognition is how _______ and _______ influence ______ and ______
attitudes and perceptions
Beliefs and behaviour
Cognitive misers such as stereotypes or categorisation are _____________ which preserve ___________
Cognitive shortcuts which preserve cognitive economy
The 4 approaches to categorisation are
Rule based approach
Prototype approach
Exemplar approach
Associative networks
Schemas capture
cognitive representations
The covariation model of attribution decides between if something has an _______ or __________ cause
Internal vs external
The covariation model judges attributions based on three things, what are they?
Consensus
Consistency
Distinctiveness
Covariation does not equal ______________
causation
The fundamental attribution error is when people attribute____________
the behaviour of others due to internal factors(disposition) , underestimating external (situation) factors.
Actor observer bias is when we attribute the behaviour of others as _________, and our own behaviour as ____________
Others = internal
Ours = external
Self serving bias is the tendency to ______________ but bot for _________
take credit for success, but not for failure
Ethnocentrism is also referred to as the _________________________
ULTIMATE ATTRIBUTION ERROR
Public/information deficit model is when we _____________________
fall ack on irrational information when we have a lack information
The public/information model shows that knowledge on a topic and attitudes towards an topic do not necessarily ___________
Correlate
What are the 4 types of psychological distance affecting risk perception?
Uncertainty
Social distance
geographic distance
temporal distance
Low level construal terms are psychologically _________, whereas high level construal terms are psychologically _______
close
distant
