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Social Cognition

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actor/observer bias   show
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show the tendency to judge the frequency or likelihood of an event by using a starting point (called an anchor) and then making adjustments up or down.  
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attributions   show
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availability heuristic   show
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show the tendency to ignore or underuse base rate information and instead to be influenced by the distinctive features of the case being judged  
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cognitive miser   show
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show the tendency to notice and search for information that confirms one’s beliefs and to ignore information that disconfirms one’s beliefs  
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show imagining alternatives to past or present events or circumstances  
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counter-regulation   show
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debiasing   show
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downward counterfactuals   show
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show the tendency to overestimate the number of other people who share one’s opinions, attitudes, values, and beliefs  
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show the tendency to underestimate the number of other people who share one’s most prized characteristics and abilities  
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show the false belief that it is better not to change one’s first answer on a test even if one starts to think that a different answer is correct  
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framing   show
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show the tendency for observers to attribute other people’s behavior to internal or dispositional causes and to downplay situational causes  
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gain-framed appeal   show
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show the tendency to believe that a particular chance event is affected by previous events and that chance events will “even out” in the short run  
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heuristics   show
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hot hand   show
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show the false belief that one can influence certain events, especially random or chance ones  
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show the tendency to overestimate the link between variables that are related only slightly or not at all  
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knowledge structures   show
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loss-framed appeal   show
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meta-cognition   show
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one-shot illusory correlation   show
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priming   show
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regret   show
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show the tendency to judge the frequency or likelihood of an event by the extent to which it resembles the typical case  
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show knowledge structures that represent substantial information about a concept, its attributes, and its relationships to other concepts  
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show knowledge structures that define situations and guide behavior  
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show the tendency to take credit for success but deny blame for failure; or internal attributions for success, external attributions for failure  
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simulation heuristic   show
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social cognition   show
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show the statistical tendency for extreme scores or extreme behavior to be followed by others that are less extreme and closer to average  
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Stroop effect   show
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Stroop test   show
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theory perseverance   show
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show imagining alternatives that are better than actuality  
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