Chapter 3: Social Cognition

• The way we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about the social world refers to which term?

  Social cognition
• Automatic judgments and decisions are associated with which term? *hint: are usually helpful and quick.

  Implicit Cognition
• Deliberate judgment and decisions are accociated with which term? *hint: can also be useful when making careful decisions.

  Explicit Cognition
• Mental grouping of object, ideas, or events that share common properties is associated with which term?

  Category
• Most representation number or category is associated with which term?

  Prototype
• This term is referred to as organized structure of knowledge that is built from experience, contains casual relations, and is a theory about how the social world operates?

  Schema
• People with expertise on a topic have well developed ___ about that topic?

  Schema
• This term is referred to as schemas about common, specific events? *hint: going to the grocery store.

  Scripts
• We have specific ideas about how these events will progress. This statement is best asscoiated with? *hint: we have a script written about them.

  Scripts
• Identify common themes in situations/ concepts, direct our behavior, influence what information we pay attention to, and alter our behaviors and decision from natural inclinations are all examples of how ___ influence us?

  Schemas
• Schemas about social identities are also known as?

  Stereotypes
• A mental shortcut commonly used to simplify problems and avoid cognitive overload is known as?

  Heuristics
• Something is likely to belong to the category if it resembles the category prototype. Which term is best associated with this statement? *hint: type of heuristic

  Representativeness Heuristic
• A shortcut that we use when making judgments about probability. Which term is best associated with this statement? *hint: type of heuristic

  Representativeness Heuristic
• Belief that something is likely to occur, or is common, if one can easily think of an example. Which term is best associated with this statement? *hint: type of heuristic

  Availability heuristic
• What term describes cases in which a person uses a specific target number or value as a starting point, known as an anchor, and subsequently adjusts that information until an acceptable value is reached over time?

  Anchoring and adjustment heuristic