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Social thinking
Social Psychology Exam 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| how are memories shaped? | by current attitudes, people's currents moods, through rosy restrospection |
| what is mood congruent memory? | tendency to remember better positive memories when in a good mood and negative memories when in a bad mood |
| what is rosy retrospection? | tendency to remember mildly favorable events are more pleasant than when you actually experienced them |
| how are our beliefs shaped? | by the use of heuristics (mental shortcuts), through confirmation bias, through our expectations, beliefs confirming beliefs |
| what are representitiveness heuristics? | comparing something to our mental representation of that category |
| what are availabilty heuristics? | if examples are readility available in our memory we usually presume they are more common |
| what is confirmation bias? | seeking information that confirms believes rather than information that might disconfirm beliefs |
| what can confirmation bias lead to? | perseverance |
| what is belief perseverance? | persistance of initial conception or beliegs in the face of discredeting information |
| what is overconfidence phenomenon? | tendency to be more confident than correct or overestimating the accuracy of ones believes |
| what is illusory correlations? | seeing a relationship that does not exist or a much stronger one than actually exists |
| what is self fulfilling prophecy? | a belief that leads to its own fulfillment |
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