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Social Psychology 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Priming | Example: Watching a scary movie at home may prime us to interpret furnace noises as a possible intruder |
| Belief Perseverance | Persistence of one’s initial conceptions, as when the basis for one’s belief is discredited but an explanation of why the belief might be true survives |
| Misinformation effect | Incorporating “misinformation” into one’s memory of the event after witnessing an event and receiving misleading information about it |
| Controlled processing | Reflective, deliberate, and conscious |
| Automatic processing | Impulsive, effortless, and without our awareness |
| Overconfidence Phenomenon | Tendency to be more confident than correct – to overestimate the accuracy of one’s beliefs |
| Incompetence feeds | overconfidence |
| Confirmation Bias | Tendency to search for information that confirms one’s preconceptions |
| Remedies for Overconfidence | Give prompt feedback to explain why statement is incorrect For planning fallacy, ask one to “unpack a task” – break it down into estimated time requirements for each part Get people to think of one good reason why their judgments might be wrong |
| Representativeness heuristic | Tendency to presume, sometimes despite contrary odds, that someone or something belongs to a particular group if resembling (representing) a typical member |
| Availability heuristic | Cognitive rule that judges the likelihood of things in terms of their availability in memory |
| Counterfactual Thinking | Imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that might have happened, but didn’t |
| Illusory Thinking | Our search for order in random events |
| Illusory correlation | Perception of a relationship where none exists, or perception of a stronger relationship than actually exists |
| Illusion of control | Perception of uncontrollable events as subject to one’s control or as more controllable than they are |
| Misattribution | Mistakenly attributing a behavior to the wrong source |
| Attribution theory | Theory of how people explain others’ behavior Dispositional attribution Situational attribution |
| Inferring Traits | Consistency Distinctiveness Consensus |
| Fundamental Attribution Error | Tendency for observers to underestimate situational influences and overestimate dispositional influences upon others’ behavior |
| Why Do We Make Attribution Errors | Actor-observer perspectives Camera perspective bias Perspectives change with time |
| The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | The process by which one’s expectations about a person eventually lead that person to behave in ways that confirm those expectations. |
| Behavioral confirmation | Type of self-fulfilling prophecy whereby people’s social expectations lead them to behave in ways that cause others to confirm their expectations |
| embodied cognition | The mutual influence of bodily sensations on cognitive preferences and social judgments |
| regression toward the average | The tendency for extreme behavior or scores to return toward the average. |
| dis-positional attribution | attributing behavior to the person strengths |
| situational attribution | attributing behavior to the environment |
| spontaneous trait inference | An effortless automatic inference of a trait after exposure to someone's behavior. |
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