Social Cognition (split) Flashcards
People’s belief that they can influence events, even when they have no control over what will happen
Illusion of control
The tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors
False-consensus effect
People act as untrained scientists, objectively looking at behaviors and making accurate judgments
Naive scientists
People’s reluctance to do much extra thinking
Cognitive miser
A failure to perceive objects that are not the focus of attention
Gorilla basketball video
Inattentional blindness
Failing to notice changes in the environment
Card video
Change blindness
The more distant something is from an individual’s direct experience, the more abstractly that stimulus will be construed
Construal level theory
Remember things at the end of a list
Recency effect
Remember things at the beginning of a list
Primacy effect
Tendency to overestimate the accuracy of one’s beliefs
Overconfidence phenomenon
Persistence of one’s initial conceptions, even in the face of opposing evidence
Andersen (1980) firefighter study
More likely to score higher on risk-taking than the general public
Finding is bogus, but people still believe it
Belief perseverance
Our expectations lead us to act in ways that cause others to confirm our expectations
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Error of assuming that no one in a group perceives things as we do
Pluralistic ignorance
The perception of a relationship where none exists
Ex: stepping on the M in the diag = failing first blue book
Illusory correlation
Tendency to search for info that confirms our preconceptions
Confirmation bias
