Exam 3: Social Cognition

Korsakov's syndrome is a neurological disorder more closely associated with abnormal psychology than with social psychology.Why would the authors of your text describe the symptoms of Korsakov's syndrome and provide Oliver Sacks's description of his encounter with a patient suffering from that disease? This discussion illustrates

Tom and Julius are both in line for a movie,but it sells out before either of them can get tickets.Tom is the last person in line,but Julius is directly behind the person who got the last ticket.Based on the idea of counterfactual reasoning,why will Julius be more upset than Tom?

The process by which bodily sensations activate mental structures is called

When asked to guess whether Mark is from Winnipeg or Toronto,you guess Toronto because more people live in Toronto.You have used _______ in making your decision.

Explain the relation between schemas and the self-fulfilling prophecy.Provide a concrete example of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Why do we use schemas?

Melissa,a second-grade student,just finished going over her spelling list for the week.The list contained many adjectives that reflected positive emotions (e.g.,happy,elated,delighted).As Melissa gazes out the window,she sees her sister Karin come running up to the house.If Melissa is like many of the participants in an experiment by Tory Higgins and his colleagues (1977),and if Melissa's construal is a function of priming,what is she most likely to think?

________ refer(s)to the way people select,interpret,remember,and use social information to make judgments and decisions about themselves and others.

In a study by Hedden and Colleagues (2008)East Asian Americans showed greater cortical activity when instructed to ________,whereas European Americans showed greater cortical activity when instructed to ________.

Why do people often fall prey to the availability heuristic and draw incorrect inferences?

Compared to those in Western cultures,those in East Asian cultures have a more ________ style of thinking.

A friend of yours,a skeptic about social-psychological research,says to you,"All this talk about cognitive shortcomings.Social psychologists set people up to look dumb.People are much better at social reasoning than social psychologists give them credit for." You've just read Chapter 3 on social cognition.What would you say?

A teenager wants to borrow the family car to go to an out-of-town concert.Her parents resist the idea.The teenager in question is most likely to view her parents as stubborn and unreasonable when they say to her,

_______ processing is nonconscious,effortless,and unintentional,whereas _______ processing is conscious,effortful,and intentional.

Which of the following is NOT a step in the self-fulfilling prophecy?

What did David Kille and colleagues (2013)find when they had participants fill out questionnaires either sitting on a wobbly chair and writing on a wobbly table or sitting on a stable chair with a stable table?

What is a major advantage of processing information automatically?

The main difference between the availability heuristic and accessibility is that availability refers to _______ while accessibility refers to _______.

Reasoning based on the ease with which we can bring something to mind involves the use of the _______ heuristic.

Recall that Norbert Schwarz and his colleagues (1991)asked some participants to think of 6 times they had behaved assertively and asked other participants to think of 12 times they had behaved assertively,and then asked all participants to rate how assertive they thought they really were.Participants who tried to generate 6 examples of assertive behaviours rated themselves as more assertive than did participants who tried to generate 12 examples.Why?