Exam 3: Social Cognition: How We Think About the Social World

You and your friend are debating the greatness of the human mind.She claims that relying on schemas and automatic processes is ultimately detrimental,but you contend that such processes have their benefits.List and explain three benefits to relying on schemas and automatic processes,as well as three drawbacks to using these processes.

Recall that Norbert Schwarz and his colleagues (1991)asked some participants to think of six times they had behaved assertively and asked other participants to think of twelve times they had behaved assertively,and then asked all participants to rate how assertive they thought they really were.Participants who tried to generate six examples of assertive behaviors rated themselves as more assertive than did participants who tried to generate twelve examples.The point that this study illustrates is that

To use controlled processing,we need all of the following except

Which of the following provides the best example of the self-fulfilling prophecy?

Olivia thinks that all monks are silent,pious,devout men.This is an example of

Explain some of the differences in social cognition between East Asian and Western cultures.

____ allow us to quickly organize information into categories.

Lord,Lepper,and Preston (1984)conducted a study investigating ways to reduce errors in judgment.When they asked people to think using the opposite point of view to their own,what was the result? Participants

When Frederic Bartlett (1932)interviewed both a Scotsman and a Bantu herdsman about the particulars of a cattle transaction,the Scot ____,whereas the Bantu herdsman ____.

Based on the study by Harold Kelley (1950)presented in your text,if you were to describe yourself to a blind date as being witty,how would she be most likely to view a slightly sarcastic comment you make?

According to the authors of your text,automatic processes are based on

When Jana was chiding herself for losing her favorite necklace and reciting a list of all the things she could have done to prevent the loss,her grandmother said,"Now,Jana.Don't cry over spilled milk." In essence, Jana's grandmother was advising her to

Researchers Miyamoto,Nisbett,and Masuda compared photographs of city scenes in the U.S.and Japan.They found that on average,city scenes in the U.S.

According to the authors of your text,how is it best to characterize humans as social thinkers?

In which ways is counterfactual thinking a controlled process? It is

Explain the relation between schemas and the self-fulfilling prophecy.Provide a concrete example.

You have just arrived for your first year of college,but your roommate,Leah,is nowhere to be found.Your next-door neighbor,Tim,tells you that he's met Leah,and that she's really shy and introverted.If you wanted to counteract the self-fulfilling prophecy,what might you do when you meet Leah?

Which of the following is the best example of the practice of racial profiling?

Recall that Higgins,Rholes,and Jones (1977)had participants memorize a number of words before reading an ambiguous passage about a character named Donald.The results of this study showed that

Parents seldom spend a lot of time explaining to their children how to ride a bicycle.Instead,they often get a bike with training wheels and let the children learn for themselves how to ride a bike.This is because our understanding about how to ride a bicycle is based on