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Social cognition and attitudes Flashcards

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Durability bias

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people overestimate how long an event will affect them

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Hot cognition

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Influenced by desires and feelings.

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Directional goals

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The motivation to reach a particular outcome or judgment.

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need for closure

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the desire to come to a firm conclusion

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mood-congruent memory

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Better able to recall memories that have a mood similar to our current mood.

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Attitude

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Evaluating an entity with favor or disfavor

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explicit attitude

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participants are directly asked to provide their attitudes toward various objects, people, or issues

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Implicit attitude

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An attitude that a person does verbally or overtly express.

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Social cognition

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How people think about others and the social world

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Schema

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Mental blueprint for how we expect people to behave

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Heuristics

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Mental shortcuts

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availability heuristic

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The frequency or likelihood of an event

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Planning fallacy

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Underestimating how long it will take to complete a task

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Affective forecasting

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Predicting how one will feel in the future after some event or decision.

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Impact bias

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overestimating the intensity of one’s future feelings

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motivated skepticism

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skeptical of evidence not supporting our goal

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Automatic

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Unintentional and uncontrollable

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chameleon effect

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non-consciously mimic postures, facial expressions, mannerisms, movements

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Stereotypes

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Beliefs about a group of people that guides our judgements outside of conscious awareness

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Implicit measures of attitudes

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infer the participant’s attitude rather than having the participant explicitly report it.

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IAT

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measures how quickly someone associates something with positive or negative words

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Evaluative priming task

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How quickly a participant labels the valence of the attitude object when it appears immediately after a positive or negative image

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