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

The shortcuts that people use to make judgments and decisions quickly and efficiently are called

When people classify a stimulus based on how similar it appears to be to the typical case,they are using the ____ heuristic.

Based on information from the authors of your text,what is one possible explanation as to why girls and boys perform about the same in math in elementary school,but a gender gap appears around puberty?

With regard to the use of base rate information,the evidence suggests that people

The text discusses several instances where relying on automatic processes can be fatal.Identify and discuss one instance where using controlled processes could be detrimental.

Research on the health consequences of thought suppression suggests that spending effort suppressing thoughts is ____ to our physical health and ____ to our psychological health.

In a study by Correll et al.(2002)described in the text,people played a video game in which they saw white and black people holding either a gun or a cell phone,and had to press either a "shoot" button if the target had a gun or a "don't shoot" button if the target had a phone.People made the most errors in

Research by Kahneman and Tversky (1973)presented by the authors of your text found that people do not use base rate information sufficiently,and pay more attention to

Psychologists distinguish between two types of cognitive processing. ____ processing is nonconscious and unintentional,whereas ____ processing is conscious and intentional.

According to the authors of your text,people raised in which of the following countries would be most likely to have a holistic thinking style?

According to the authors of your text,a good metaphor of human thinking is to consider people to be

Why do schemas tend to become stronger over time? What processes are involved?

A stereotype can also be considered a(n) ____ about members of a social group.

Which of the following is not a typical example of the kind of knowledge that is contained in a schema? Your knowledge

Ethan and Heather see a man stumbling around as he walks down the street.Ethan,who belongs to Alcoholics Anonymous,thinks the man is drunk,but Heather,who just watched a TV special on Michael J.Fox,thinks the man has Parkinson's Disease.These differing interpretations of the same behavior seem to be caused by Ethan and Heather's differences in

Warren believes that Tom is an outgoing,gregarious person."Whom did you hang out with this weekend?" Warren asks Tom."Tell me about all of the fun things that you have planned for the summer," Warren continues.Although Tom is usually rather quiet and reserved,he responds to Warren in an outgoing,friendly manner.This is an example of

If you grew up in a household with a brother who was morbidly shy,you might have a different belief about a man you meet who avoids dating women than a person who grew up in a household with a brother who was gay.This difference in interpretation is due to differences in your and the other person's

The availability heuristic is based on the principle of using ____ as a cue to probability.

The authors of your text suggest that with respect to traditional gender differences in scholastic performance,one causal factor may be

Korsakov's syndrome is a neurological disorder more closely associated with abnormal psychology than with social psychology.Why would the authors of your text describe the symptoms of Korsakov's syndrome and provide Oliver Sacks's description of his encounter with a patient suffering from that disease? This discussion illustrates