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24 Cards in this Set
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Affect
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Our current feelings and moods.
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Affective Forecasts
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Predictions about how we would feel about events we have not actually experienced.
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Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristic
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A heuristic that involves the tendency to use a number of value as a starting point to which we then make adjustments.
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Buying a car - salesman starts high, customer starts low progessively until meeting somewhere in the middle satosfying both sides.
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Automatic Processing
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This occurs when, after extensive experience with a task or type of information, we reach the stage where we can perform the task or process the information in a seemingly effortless, automatic, and non conscious manner.
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Availability Heuristic
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A strategy for making judgments on the basis of how easily specific kinds of information can be brought to mind.
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Counterfactual Thinking
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The tendency to imaginr other outcomes in a situation than the ones that actually occurred. ("What might have been.")
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Conditions of Uncertainty
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Where the "correct" answer is difficult to know or would take a great deal of effort to determine.
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Heuristics
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Simple rules for making complex decisions or drawing inferences in a rapid manner and seemingly effortless manner.
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Information Overload
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Instances in which our ability to process information is exceeded.
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Magical Thinking
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Thinking involving assumptions that don't hold up to rational scrutiny - for example, the belief that things that resemble one another share fundamental properties.
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Metaphor
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A linguistic device that relates or draws a comparison between one abstract concept and another dissimilar concept.
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Mood Congruence Effecat
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The fact that we are more likely to remember positice information when in a positive mood and negative information when in a negative mood.
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Mood Dependent Memory
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The fact that we remember while in a given mood may be determined, in part, by what we learned when previously in that mood.
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Optimistic Bias
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Our predisposition to expect things to turn out well overall.
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Overconfidence Barrier
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The tendency to have more confidence in the accuracy of our own judgments than is reasonable.
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Perseverance Effect
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The tendency for beliefs and schemas to remain unchanged even in the face of contradictory information.
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Planning Fallacy
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The tendency to make optimistic predictions concerning how long a given task will take for completion.
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Priming
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A situation that occurs when stimuli or events increase the availability in memory or consciousness of specific types of information held in memory.
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Prototype
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Summary of the common attributes possessed by members of a category.
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Representativeness Heuristic
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A strategy for making judgments based on the extent to which current stimuli or events resemble other stimuli or categories.
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Schemas
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Mental frameworks cetnering on a specific theme that help us to organize social information.
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Social Cognition
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The manner in which we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about the social world.
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Terror Management
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Our efforts to come to terms with certainty of our own death and its unsettling implications.
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Unpriming
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Refers to the fact that the effects of the schemas tend to persist until they are somehow expressed in thought or behavior and only then do their effects decrease.
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