Social Cognition Exam 3

Front 1

normative model

Back 1

what's statistically normal is actually normal

Front 2

Jenkens and Ward Paradigm

Back 2

press button and light turns on (not necessarily due to pressing button) People overestimate their control over the light! (illusion of control)

Front 3

self-deception enhancement

Back 3

unrealistically attribute positive characteristics to themselves (positively correlated to well being

Front 4

self-deception denial

Back 4

deny that they have negative characteristics (uncorrelated to well-being)

Front 5

psychological health

Back 5

subjective state of happiness/well-being, capacity to maintain satisfying interpersonal relationships, ability to engage in productive and meaningful work, ability to grow and cope with life's challenges

Front 6

steps of recovery

Back 6

1. restore positive sense of self-worth

2. reasserting control over one's life

3. finding meaning in the experience

4. reclaiming an optimistic view of the future

Front 7

problem-focused coping

Back 7

taking active steps to figure out how to cope with stress, effort given towards solving the problem

Front 8

emotion-focused coping

Back 8

attempt to reduce stress experiences (ex: get drunk) better in short term, but not long term!

Front 9

Adaptation

Back 9

evolved solutions to problems posed to an animal

Front 10

what women want in a mate

Back 10

economic capacity, social status, age (older man!) ambition, dependability and stability, intelligence, compatibility, size and strength, good health

Front 11

top three predictors for men and women in picking a mate

Back 11

love, kindness and emotional stability

Front 12

what men want in a mate

Back 12

youth, physical beauty, body shape

Front 13

level 1 cognition

Back 13

unconscious cognition

Front 14

level 2 cognition

Back 14

conscious cognition

Front 15

verbatim encoding

Back 15

seeks to encode exactly what happened during a certain event

Front 16

fuzzy-trace throey

Back 16

posits that the unconscious also tries to derive a gist, an imprecise rendering of an event that can be pulled out and applied to a similar situation

Front 17

metis

Back 17

state of wisdom that emerges from conversation between level 1 and level 2

Front 18

fairness/reciprocity concern

Back 18

involves issues of equal and unequal treatment

Front 19

harm/care concern

Back 19

empathy and concern for the suffering of others

Front 20

purity/disgust concern

Back 20

repels us from noxious situations/ people

Front 21

in-group/loyalty concern

Back 21

humans feel loyalty to people in the same group as them