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

When asked a question during Trivial Pursuit,Sylvia is certain that her answer is correct,even though her teammates disagree.Sylvia cannot be persuaded by her teammates to reconsider how accurate her response is. She is demonstrating the

When people use the availability heuristic to make quick judgments,they are likely to do all of the following except

Why do we use schemas?

You stayed up all night cramming for this examination and didn't do as well as you had hoped."If only I had started studying sooner and gotten a good night's rest,I'd have done much better," you think to yourself.You have just engaged in

The study by Rosenthal and Jacobson on self-fulfilling prophecies concluded that the teachers treated the "bloomers" in class differently than the other children.In which of the following ways did the teachers treat these students differently?

Tiffany has a hard time trusting other people her age because she believes they are irresponsible.Accordingly,when she makes dinner plans with one friend,she also makes backup plans with someone else,and she goes to one or the other.Her friends soon in turn begin to "blow off" their arrangements since it is not clear whether or not Tiffany will show up.Tiffany has created

Nutz and Boltz,Inc.employs 100 people; 80 are lawyers and 20 are engineers.Albert,a lawyer at the company,is quiet,likes puzzles,and carries a calculator.Most people,when asked whether Albert is a lawyer or an engineer,will guess that he is an engineer.These people are using ____ to make this faulty guess.A correct guess would have been made if they had used ____.

Our use of mental shortcuts usually leads to

Professor Chadwick is young and looks even younger than his years.He dresses in jeans,grubby tennis shoes,and Hawaiian print shirts.One day in the hallway,he strikes up a conversation with a student.During the conversation,the student begins to complain about the poor teaching of the faculty in the department and about the bad things he's heard about the course that Professor Chadwick teaches.Needless to say,when the student finds out he was actually talking to a professor,he feels embarrassed and avoids Professor Chadwick.What is the moral of this story?

In the Amadou Diallo case,the police apparently acted

Instead of considering every single brand and variety of pasta sauce at the grocery store,most people make quick decisions about which one to purchase.This is an example of how people use

Based on your reading of Chapter 3 (Social Cognition),who would you predict would be more frustrated: Katie,who missed an "A" by one point,or James,who missed an "A" by five points?

Which of the following is not a function of schemas?

In Wegner's theory on the consequences,the "ironic" process is the ____ process because ____.

Christopher is considering breaking up with his high-school sweetheart.He spends many hours weighing the benefits and drawbacks,he asks his friends for advice,and he thinks about it further before coming to his decision.In this case,Christopher is using

Reasoning based on the ease with which we can bring something to mind involves the use of the ____ heuristic.

If accurate judgments are our goal,we should use base rate information instead of the representativeness heuristic when

The study by Shariff and Norenzayan (2007)presented in your text showed that under some conditions,participants would be more likely to leave more money for a stranger.What is the larger contribution to understanding social cognition that this study makes?

The chapter's opening vignette refers to the Amadou Diallo case,in which four police officers shot Diallo,an African immigrant,forty-one times when he tried to pull out his wallet.This story is used to illustrate the point that

Chronic accessibility is to long-term exposure to a stimulus as temporary accessibility is to