Social Cognition

Question 1

Snap Judgment

Answer 1

Having very little information but making judgments anyway

Question 2

Pluralistic Ignorance

Answer 2

Form of misperception that occurs whenever people act in ways that conflict with their private beliefs because of a concern for the social consequences

Question 3

SelfFulfilling Prophecy

Answer 3

Tendency for people to act in ways that bring about the very thing they expect to happen

Question 4

Primacy Effect

Answer 4

Type of order affect that focuses on the disproportionate influence on judgment by information presented first in a body of evidence

Question 5

Recency Effect

Answer 5

Disproportionate influence on judgment by information presented last in a body of evidence

Question 6

Spin Framing

Answer 6

Framing information to be seen as favorable or unfavorable

Question 7

Construal Level Theory

Answer 7

Theory about the relationship between psychological distance and abstract or concrete thinking

Question 8

Heuristics

Answer 8

Intuitive mental operations, performed quickly and automatically, that provide efficient answers to common problems of judgment

Question 9

Representativeness Heuristic

Answer 9

Process whereby judgments of likelihood are based on assessments of similarity between individuals and group prototypes, or between cause and effect

Question 10

Planning Fallacy

Answer 10

Tendency for people to be unrealistically optimistic about how quickly they can complete a particular project, even when fully aware that they have often failed to complete similar projects on time in the past