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PSY- chapter 5
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
12/02/2012

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automatic thinking
Definition
type of decisino making process that occurs at unconcious or automatic level and is entirely effortless and unintential
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heuristics
Definition
mental shortcuts that are often used to form judgements and make decisions
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controlled or effortful thinking
Definition
thinking that is effortful, conscious and intentional
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social cognition
Definition
how people think about social world, and in particiluar how people select, interpret, and use info to make judgements about world
Term
list the 6 mental short cuts people use
Definition
intution
availability
representitaveiness
base-rate fallacy
anchoring and adjustment
counterfactula thinking/stimulation
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intuition
Definition
decisino making short cut in which we rely on our instinct instead of relying on more object information
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avilability hueristic
Definition
mental shortcut in which people make judgemnt based on how easily they can bring something to mind
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schemas
Definition
mental strcutures that organize our knowedge about the world and influnce how we interpret people and events
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person schemas
Definition
beliefs about other people, their traits, and goasl
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self schemas
Definition
our memory, inferences, and information about ourselves
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role schemas
Definition
behaviours that are expected of people in particular occuptions or soical postision
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even schemas aka scripts
Definition
scripts that people have for well-known situations which help them prepare for the expected sequnce of events
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content-free schemas
Definition
rules about processing information
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priming
Definition
increase accessiblity to a given concept or schema due to a prior experience
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schemas fall under what cateogory of mental shortcuts?
Definition
avialability
Term
what were the three specific forms of availability discuessed?
Definition
impact of past expereinces (shcemas)
role of uncsouis priming
information avialable
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representativness
Definition
tendency to precive someone or something based on its similiary to a typical case
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base-rate fallacy
Definition
error in which people ignore the numerical frequency, or base rate of an event in estimating how liekly it is to occur
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anchoring and adjustment
Definition
mental shortcut in whic people rely on an inital starting point in making an estimate but then fail to adequatly adjust from this anchor
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counterfactual thinking
Definition

tendency to imagine alternative outcomes to various events

amount of delight or regret you feel depends on how easily you can imagine a diff outcome.

ie soliders in isaral can't switch shifts because they'd feel too guilty if mate got killed during thier shift 

Term
contrast effect
Definition
relavtive diffrence in intesntiy between two stimuli and their effect on each other
Term
what are the two types of information presentation discussed?
Definition
contrast effect and framing
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framing
Definition
tendency to be influenced by way an issue is presented
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reconstructive memory
Definition
process by which memories of given event are altered after event occured
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implicit personality theory
Definition
theory that certain traits and behaviours go together
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primacy
Definition
tendency for information that is presented early to have a greater impact on judgemnets than information that is presented later
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are first impressions accurate?
Definition
sometimes freakishly so.
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trait negatively bias
Definition
tendency for peopel to be more influnced by negative traits than by postive ones
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are those in a postive mood or a nuetral mood more liekly to rely on shortcuts in thinking?
Definition
those in a good mood. but these people were more likely to htink pos. about others.
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perceptual confirmatio
Definition
tendency for people to see things in line with their own belifs and preconceptions
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illusory correlation
Definition
tendecny to se correlation between two events when in reality, there is no association between them.
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unrealistic optimism
Definition
tendecny for people to see themselves as less likely than others to suffer bad events in future
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illusory superioirty
Definition
unrealistic postive view of self.
- good mental health
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hindsight bias
Definition
tendency of people to see a given outcome as havign been inevitable once they know the actual outcome.
- good mental health
Term
beleif preserverance
Definition
tendency to maintain, and strengthen, beliefs in face of disconfirming evidence
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behavioural confirmation/self fullfilling profecy
Definition
people's expectations about a person led them to eleciti behaviour that confirms those expectations
Term
four steps of self-fullfiling prophecy
Definition
1. have expectation about targt person
2. behave toward target person in line with your epecations about his or her personaility
3. target person responses in line with your behaviour towrad him or her
4. you see targets behaviour as confirming your expectations, which in turn leads you to believe that your expectations were correct.
Term
how can cycle of self-fullfilling prophecy be broken?
Definition
1. percievers goal to be liked by target person
2. target aware of perceiver's excpectations
3. perceivers assumptions are highly inaccurate and target therefore doesn't act in expected way
Term
is unrealistic optimsim seen in the same amount in collect and individ cultures?
Definition
no. not seen as much in collect cultures.
Term
feild dependednt
Definition
having more difficultuy in idenityfing an embeded figure in a larer background but greater ability to percive an image as one holisitc figure.
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feild independent
Definition
having ability to idenitfy an embeeded figure and sepearte it from larger background
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