Psyc241 Social Psychology Ch 3. Social Cognition

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Social Cognition

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- How people THINK about themselves and the social world
- How people SELECT, INTERPRET, REMEMBER, and USE social information to make judgments and decisions

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Automatic Thinking

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Thinking that is NONCONSCIOUS, UNINTENTIONAL, INVOLUNTARY, AND EFFORTLESS

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Schemas

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Mental structures people use to ORGANIZE their knowledge about the social world around THEMES or SUBJECTS and that INFLUENCE THE INFO people notice, think about, and remember
= *MENTAL CABINET*

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Accessibility

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The extent to which schemas and concepts are at the FOREFRONT of PEOPLE'S MINDS and are therefore likely to be used when we are making judgments about the social world

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Priming

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The process by which *RECENT* experiences INCREASE THE ACCESSIBILITY of a schema, trait, or concept

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

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1. people have an EXPECTATION about another person,
2. which INFLUENCES THEIR BEHAVIOR toward that person,
3. which causes that person to BEHAVE CONSISTENTLY with people's original expectations,
4. making the expectations COME TRUE

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Judgmental Heuristics

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Mental shortcuts people use to make judgments QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY

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Availability Heuristics

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A mental rule of thumb whereby people base a judgment on the EASE with which they can bring something to mind

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Representativeness Heuristics

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A mental shortcut whereby people CLASSIFY something according to HOW SIMILAR it is to a TYPICAL CASE

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Base Rate Information

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Information about the FREQUENCY of members of different categories in the population

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Analytic Thinking Style

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a type of thinking in which people focus on the PROPERTIES OF OBJECTS *without* considering their surrounding context
- common in Western cultures

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Holistic Thinking Style

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a type of thinking in which people focus on the OVERALL CONTEXT (how they relate to each other)
- common in EA culture

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Controlled Thinking

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thinking that is CONSCIOUS, INTENTIONAL, VOLUNTARY, and EFFORTFUL

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Counterfactual Thinking

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Mentally CHANGING some aspect of the PAST as a way of imagining what MIGHT HAVE BEEN

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Thought Suppression

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The attempt to AVOID THINKING about something we would prefer to FORGET

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Overconfidence Barrier

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The fact that people usually have TOO MUCH CONFIDENCE in the ACCURACY of their judgments