Social Cognition And Attitudes

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Attitude

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A psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with favor or disfavor

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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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Automatic

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A behavior or process has one or more of the following features: unintentional uncontroable occurring outside of conscious awareness and cognitively effiecent

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Availability heuristic

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A heuristic in which the frequency or likely hood of an event is evaluated based on how easily instances of it come to mind

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Chameleon effect

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The tendency for individuals to nonconsciously mimic the postures mannerisms facial expressions and other behaviors of ones interaction partners

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Directional goals

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The motivation to reach a particular outcome or judgement

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Durabity bias

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A bias in affective forecasting in which one overestimates for how long one will feel an emotion (positive or negotive ) after some event

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Evaluative priming task

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An implicit attitude task that asses the extent to which an attitude object is associated with a positive or negative valence by measuring the time it takes a person to label an adjective as good or bad after being presented with an attitude object

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Explicit attitude

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An attitude that is consciously held and can be reported on by the person holding the attitude

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Heuristics

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A mental shortcut or rule of thumb that reduced complex mental problems to more simple rule- based decisions

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Hot cognition

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The mental processes that are influenced by desires and feelings

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Mom pact bias

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A bias in affective forecasting in which one underestimates the strength or intensity of emotion one will experience after some event

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Implicit association test

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An implicit attitude task that assess a persons automatic associations between concepts by measuring the response times in paring the consecpts

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Implicit attitude

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An attitude that a person cannot verbly or overtly state

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Implicit measures of attitudes

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Measures of attitudes in which researchers infer the participants attitude rather than having the participant explicitly report it

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Mood- congruent memory

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The tendency to be better able to recall memories that have a mood similar to our current mood

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Motivated skeptiscsm

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A form of bias that can result from having a directional goal in which one is skeptical of evidence despite its strength because it goes against what one wants to believe

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Need for closure

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The desire to come to a decision that will resolve ambiguity and conclude an issue

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Planning fallacy

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A cognitive bias in which one underestimates how long it will take to complete a task

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Primed

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A process by which a concept or behavior is made more cognitively accsebile or likely to occur through the presentation of an associated concept

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Representiveness heuristic

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A heuristic in which the likelihood of an object belonging to a catagory is evaluated

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Schema

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A mental model or representation that organizes the important information about a thing person or an event

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Social cognition

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The study of how people think about the social world

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Stereotypes

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Our general beliefs about the traits or behaviors shared by groups of people