Test #2 Flashcards
1
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Social Cognition
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A movement in social psychology that began in the 1970s that focused on thoughts about people and about social relationships
2
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What do people think about more than anything else
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Other people
3
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Cognitive Miser
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- Term used to describe peoples reluctance to do much extra thinking
4
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Priming
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- Activating an idea into someones mind so that related ideas are more accessible
5
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Schemas
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- Knowledge structures that represent substantial information about a concept, its attributes, and its relationships to other concepts.
6
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Is mental control a form of self regulation
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There is a profound difference between self-regulation and self-control. Self-control is about inhibiting strong impulses; self-regulation is about reducing the frequency and intensity of strong impulses by managing stress-load and recovery.
7
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Attributions
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- The causal explanations people die for their own and others behaviors, and for events.
8
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Self serving bias
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- The tendency to take credit for success but deny blame for failure, or internal attributions for success, eternal attributions for failure
9
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Difference in how people judge themselves vs others
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hmm
10
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Four common heuristics
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- Mental shortcuts that provide quick estimates about the likelihood of uncertain events
- Affect
- Anchoring
- Availability
- Representativeness
11
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Base rate fallacy
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- Tendency to ignore or underuse base rate info and instead be influenced by the distinctive features of the case being judged
12
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Gamblers fallacy
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- Tendency to believe that a particular chance even tis affected by previous events and that chance events will even out in the short run
13
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False consensus effect
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- Tendency to overestimate the number of other people who share ones opinions, attitudes, values, and beliefs
14
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Statistical regression
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- Statistical tendency for extreme scores/extreme behavior to be followed by others that are less extreme and closer to average
15
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the bias of falsehood
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