Social Cognition Flashcards
the extend to which schemas and concepts are at the forefront of people’s minds and are therefore likely to be used when making judgements about the social world
Accessibility
A type of thinking in which people focus on the properties of objects without considering their surrounding context; this type of thinking is common in Western cultures
Analytic thinking style
Thinking that is non conscious, unintentional, involuntary. and effortless.
Automatic thinking
A mental rule of thumb whereby people base a judgement on the ease with which they can bring something to mind
Availability heuristic
Information about the frequency of members of different categories in the population
Base rate information
Thinking is is conscious, intentional, voluntary and effortful
Controlled thinking
Mentally changing some aspect of the past as away of imagining what might have been
Counterfactual thinking
A type of thinking in which people focus on the overall context, particularly the ways in which objects relate to each other; this type of thinking is common in East Asian Cultures
Holistic thinking style
Mental shortcuts people use to make judgements quickly and efficiently
Judgemental heuristics
The fact that people usually have too much confidence in the accuracy of their judgements
Overconfidence barrier
The process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility of a schema, trait or concept
Priming
A mental shortcut whereby people classify something according to how similar it is to a particular case
Representativeness heuristic
Mental structures people use to organise their knowledge about the social world around themes or subjects and that influence the information people notice, think about, and remember.
Schemas
The case wherein people have an expectation about what another person is like, which influences how they act toward that person, which causes that person to behave consistently with people’s original expectation, making the expectations come true
Self-fulfilling prophecy
How people think about themselves and the social world. more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgements and decisions
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