Exam 5: Social Cognition

Social cognition refers to a movement within social psychology that focuses on ____.

Yogurt that is "low fat" can be described as "95% fat free" or as "5% fatty." That is, it can be ____ in different ways.

Within the field of social cognition, the term ________________ essentially refers to schemas that are about events.

Sometimes people blow on dice when playing a board game to make sure they get the numbers they need to advance in the game. When people believe they can affect the dice by blowing on them they are experiencing the ____.

Believing that mentally ill individuals are violent and dangerous is an example of a(n)_____.

Which of the following is the best example of a schema?

The tendency to overestimate the link between variables that are related only slightly or not at all after a single exposure to a group member performing a behavior illustrates the ____.

When William James spoke of "wakening of associations," he was referring to ____.

Monique thinks that most people spend lots of money on shoes. This makes her feel better about the fact that she overspends on shoes. Monique's thought process is affected by the cognitive bias known as the ________________ effect.

Your friend Roger has recently been promoted at work to senior vice president. If you made an internal, unstable attribution for Roger's promotion, what might you be thinking?

Isabelle is exhausted from staying up too late and doesn't perform well at her swim meet, as a result. Isabelle will probably describe her poor performance as ____.

Suppose you are trying to guess how much money a co-worker makes. You start with your own salary and then add a few dollars since she has been at your workplace longer than you have. That is, you make use of the ________________ heuristic.

You have just spent the afternoon volunteering at the local hospital, helping patients with a variety of ailments. Even though you are not actually ill, as you walk home from the hospital you feel you are about to come down with a fever. What phenomenon is most likely to be responsible for this?

According to research on the actor/observer bias, people have a tendency to make relatively more ____ for their own behaviors but relatively more ____ for others' behaviors.

A loss-framed appeal focuses on the ____.

When most people think of the concept "sleeping," they also tend to think about concepts like "dreaming," "being tired," and "yawning." That is, when they think about "sleeping," related concepts are ____.

What will people most likely do when they encounter information that is at odds with an existing schema?

Trying not to think about pain makes it more difficult for chronic pain patients to stop using prescription opioids. This is known as a(n)__________________.

"If only I had decided to take a different route home, I wouldn't have hit that stupid tree and ended up getting this huge ticket! Argh!" This thought is an example of ____.

Who among the following published the controversial study in The Lancet connecting autism to vaccinations?