Exam 5: Social Cognition

The fact that men and women report having had very different numbers of sex partners can be almost completely explained by the fact that men have engaged in more homosexual sex.

Malle's research has supported the traditional notion of the actor-observer bias.

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

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 ____.

When people make external, unstable attributions for others' successes or failures, these attributions tend to concern questions of ____.

People who think they have a "hot hand" after winning five poker hands in a row tend to think that ____.

The illusion of control tends to produce ____.

Eleven-year-old Summer has an autism spectrum disorder. To help her prepare for new experiences, her family relies on specially developed stories about the situations. For example, when Summer has an upcoming appointment with the dentist, her family reads her books about a girl who visits the dentist. The stories help Summer know what to expect and how she should behave. These stories are often referred to as social ____.

Monique tends to spend more money than she should on shoes. However, she makes the mistake of thinking that most people spend lots of money on shoes. This makes her feel better about the fact that she herself overspends. It appears that Monique is engaging in the cognitive bias known as the ________________ effect.

Schemas and scripts are both examples of ____.

Jackson has a lot to do this weekend, but as he is getting started, an old friend contacted him. They get together for what turns out to be a two-hour breakfast. When talk turns to seeing an early movie, Jackson figured he might as well since he had already blown most of the morning. Jackson is experiencing the ____ effect.

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

Research on the anchoring and adjustment heuristic indicates that ____.

A well-known test used in psychological research plays on the distinction between automatic and controlled processing. The test requires people to look at the written names of several colors ("green," "red," "blue," etc.)-names which are in all cases written in "non-matching" colors of ink (e.g., the word "green" might be written in red ink, while the word "red" might be written in yellow ink)-and to identify, as quickly as possible, the color in which each word is written. This test is known as the ____.

The automatic system of the duplex mind makes use of a series of mental shortcuts in order to obtain quick information about the likelihood of different outcomes. These are known as ____.

The ________________ fallacy refers to the false belief that it is better not to change one's first answer even if one starts to think that a different answer is correct.

Thinking about thinking is called ____.

A prime is a ____.

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

If a moderately liberal person watches a lot of liberal news media television and listens to liberal news radio programs, her viewpoints will probably become more liberal.