Test 2 Flashcards
Psychologist distinguish between two types of cognitive processing. \_\_\_\_\_\_ thinking is non-conscious and unintentional, whereas \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ thinking is conscious and intentional. a) Accurate; inaccurate B) Automatic; controlled C) Inefficient; efficient D) Controlled; automatic
B) Automatic; controlled
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ refers to the way people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions about themselves and others. A) Social Cognition B) Schemas c) Counterfactual Thinking D) Decisions rules.
a) Social Cognition
Complete the following analogy. Non-conscious thinking \_\_\_\_\_\_:: Conscious thinking:\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. A) biased; accurate B) automatic; controlled C) Controlled; automatics D) illogical ; logical
B) automatic; controlled
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ are the cognitive structures we use to organize our knowledge of social world. a) heuristics B) Schemas C) Cognitive filters D) Counterfactuals
B) Schemas
Why do we use schemas?
A) Humans are born with schemas
B) Schemas are taught to us in our early childhood
C) Without schemas, the world would seem inexplicable and confusing.
D) Schemas ensure that we nterpret the world accurately
C) Without schemas, the world would seem inexplicable and confusing.
Recall that Harold Kelly (1950) told some college students that their guest lecturer was a warm person, and others that he was a cold person. The visitors then lectured for twenty minutes, and behaved in a very arrogant way during the lecture. When students evaluated the lecturer,
students expected a warm person rated the lecturer as funnier, but no less arrogant then students who expected a cold person.
Alice goes to see a rerun of Jaws a few days before she takes off to Florida on spring break. On break, she finds that she is now too nervous to spend much time actually in the water, since she is convinced that anything she sees int he water is a shark. her heightened sensitivity is due to
Priming
Self- Fulfilling prophecies can best be described as
When people inadvertently make schemas come true by the way they treat others.
Warren believes that Tom is an outgoing, gregarious person “whom did you hang out with this weekend”? Warren asks Tom. “Tell em about all the fun things you that you have planned for the summer,” Warren continues. Although Tom s usually rather quiet and reserved, he responds to Warren in aan outgoing, friendly manner. This is an example of
a Self-Fulfilling prophecy
Reasoning based on the ease with which we can bring something to mind involves the use of the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ heuristic. A) Availability B) representativeness C) Counterfactual D) confirmatory
A) Availability Heuristic- A mental rule of thumb whereby people base a judgment on the ease with which they can bring something to mind.
According to the authors of your text, a good metaphor of human thinking is to consider people to be..... A) budding geniuses B) Overconfident apes C) lucky fools D) flawed scientists.
Flawed scientist.
The authors of your text reported a story of a homeless man who spent his only quarter to find out why a couple (whose love letters he’d read0 had broken up. This story demonstrates
A) that homeless people make irrational decisions
B) that people tend to be very nosey
C) the idea that people are fascinated with the human condition
D) the need people have for belonging
C) the idea that people are fascinated with the human condition
According to your textbook authors, the popularity of “reality” television is largely due to the fact that we
A) have an obsession with deviant behavior because it seems so “unreal” to up
B) promote our own self-esteem by viewing ourselves as superior to the “losers” on those programs.
C) now perceive sitcoms as childish is comparison
D) are fascinated with trying to figure other people out so we can better understand our social world
D) are fascinated with trying to figure other people out so we can better understand our social world
According to the authors of your text, how people communicate-intentionally or unintentionally-without words is the definition of
non-verbal communication
Imagine traveling to a country where you don’t speak the native language. You just had a great meal. You don’t want to be misunderstood, so how can you communicate to your host that the meal was great, and that you’re happy
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