Exam 18: Social Cognition and Attitudes

People do not always have the time and mental capacity to make social inferences based on systematic and careful evaluations of social information. Therefore, people act as ____________ and use mental shortcuts.

Cognitive representations of the different identities that make up the self-concept are:

What four factors, according to Bargh (1994), determine whether a process can be thought of as automatic or controlled?

According to theoretical models which consider stereotypes as a tool that simplifies information processing, stereotypes can be seen as a:

What does Fazio's (1990) MODE model stands for?

What is the 'false consensus effect'?

According to Fiske and Neuberg (1990), individuation is likely to occur when there is poor fit between the person we are attempting to form an impression of and the activated category.

According to most social psychologists, what are the three fundamental motives that affect how we seek and respond to information about the self?

"John thinks that knitting requires lot of patience". This statement highlights the __________ component of John's attitude towards the activity of knitting.

In the MODE model attitudes can influence behaviour through intentions.

Discuss the main limitations of LaPiere's (1934) study on the relationship between attitudes and behaviour.

Petty and Cacioppo refer to the amount of systematic processing devoted to a message as ____________ and, consequently, their model is known as the elaboration likelihood model.

Which of the following elements is not one of the 'four horsemen of automaticity'?

A __________ is formed using the most representative members of a category or an averaging of traits of all members of a given group.

Social __________ refers to the way in which we process social information to form impressions of and make judgements about others.

Stereotypes are more likely to emerge in conditions of:

Which of the following is a bias affecting the way people interpret the behaviour of the out-groups?

A phenomenon known as the ______________ occurs when two statistically infrequent events are paired and the perception about the degree to which those events are correlated is inflated because of their ___________, resulting in a false impression about the relationship between the two.

What are the three key determinants of behaviour according to the theory of planned behaviour?

Discuss the difference between 'categorization' and 'individuation' with reference to the continuum of impression formation proposed by Fiske and Neuberg (1990).