Exam 5: Social Cognition

People tend to judge others by ____, and people tend to judge themselves by ____.

When you go to a restaurant, you know that there is a certain sequence of things that you need to do: (a) wait to be seated, (b) order, (c) eat, and then (d) pay. In other words, you have a _____ for what needs to be done at restaurants.

Jack read about the swine flu in the papers for the past two weeks. When he comes down with fever, chills, and a bad cough, he is absolutely certain that he has the swine flu because of all the media coverage it has received. Jack is illustrating the simulation heuristic.

Jules and Jim are reading a book review about a book that both of them have read. Jules hated the book, and seems to feel that the reviewer also hated it. Meanwhile, Jim thought the book was witty and provocative, and he seems to think that the reviewer shares HIS views. It seems as though both Jules and Jim are "seeing" different things when reading the book review. That is, both of them seem to be engaging in the ____.

Montana and Sarah are playing cards. Montana has a great hand-four aces-while Sarah's hand is just average-a 2 of hearts, a 3 of spades, a 5 of spades, and a 7 of clubs. Even though the statistical probability of both hands is the same, many people (incorrectly) assume that Montana's exact hand is rarer than Sarah's exact hand. This common misconception stems most directly from the ____.

Letha has just met her first Mormon missionary. In conversation, she finds out that he is a collector of rare books. If Letha commits the one-shot illusory correlation, she will ___.

Polina is three years old. She is just beginning to understand concepts such as "dog," "cat," "chair," and "sofa," and to understand how these concepts differ from one another. In other words, she is just beginning ____.

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

The term "cognitive miser" was coined to refer to ____.

The fundamental attribution error is sometimes also known as the ____.

Within the field of social cognition, the term "priming" refers to ____.

Social psychologists call how information is presented to others ____________________, while politicians call it ____________________.

Confucius just fell down a flight of stairs. One of his disciples makes an internal attribution for the fall. What might this disciple be thinking?

Dr. Canne wants to encourage Kirk to lose weight. He tells Kirk, "If you don't start working out soon, you are going to die young and leave your children without a father!" Dr. Canne is using a(n) ____.

An attribution is a(n) ____.

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

The paradoxical effects of thought suppression have been linked to psychological disorders, especially ____.

When people want to suppress a thought, the deliberate mind works to ____.

Before the rise of social cognition, the field of social psychology was dominated by ____.

The unconscious mind would struggle most with the meaning of which of the following?