Exam 5: The Perceptual Context

Most cognitive psychologists argue that all people,regardless of culture,engage in categorization and that it is a necessary part of everyday life.

Some psychologists believe that stereotyping is an automatic information-processing strategy,meaning that

According to the Stereotype Content Model,an individual's stereotypes about others are based on the two judgments of warmth and competence.

Perceptual filters alter and change how humans interpret information physiologically,sociologically,and

Persons in cultures with little formal education tend to remember information based on its

Describe the difference between categorization and stereotyping.

Information in short-term memory is usually lost because of

The function of the sensory register is

Negative arousal,or anxiety,is also thought to interfere with the retrieval of information from long-term memory.

One reason for cross-cultural differences in perception is due to

The essential difference between short- and long-term memory is the type of information that is stored.

The perception that one's in-group is the center of everything whereby all other groups are scaled and rated with reference to the in-group is called

Describe the three stages of human information processing.

Define ethnocentrism and discuss its causes and effects.

Persons in Western cultures tend to classify objects into discrete categories based on their similarity while persons in Eastern cultures tend to classify objects into categories based on their relationships.

The tendency for people to see members of an out-group as less diverse and more stereotypic than the members of the in-group see themselves is called

Perception is defined as

Although the amount of information stored in short-term memory is quite limited,it can be stored permanently.

Ethnocentrism refers to a belief that one racial group is superior to others and that other racial groups are necessarily inferior.

Ethnocentrism is a belief in