Social cognition - ANS -the area of social psychology that focuses on how people think about others & about the social world; researchers study how people make sense of themselves and others to make judgements, form atti
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Social cognition - ANS -the area of social psychology that focuses on how people think about others & about the social world; researchers study how people make sense of themselves and others to make judgements, form attitudes, & make predictions about the future
Schema - ANS -a mental model, or representation, of any of the various things we come across in our daily lives. An organized body of general information and beliefs we develop from direct encounters & secondhand sources
Heuristics - ANS -mental shortcuts that reduce complex problem-solving to more simple, rule-based decisions (placing things into catergories)
Planning fallacy - ANS -tasks take longer than expected (reason for students to pull all nighters)
Affective forecasting - ANS -predictions of one's future feelings
Impact bias - ANS -the tendency for a person to overestimate the intensity of their future feelings
Durability bias - ANS -the tendency for a people to overestimate how long positive or negative events will affect them
Hot cognition - ANS -the mental processes that are influenced by desires and feelings
Directional goals - ANS -motivated to reach a particular outcome or judgement & do not process information in a cold, objective manner
Motivated skepticism - ANS -we are skeptical of evidence that goes against what we want to believe despite the strength of the evidence
Mood- congruent memory - ANS -tendency to recall memories similar in valence to our current mood
Automatic - ANS -a behavior or process that is unintentional, uncontrollable, occurs outside of conscious awareness, or is cognitively efficient
Stereotypes - ANS -our general beliefs about a group of people and, once activated, they may guide our judgements outside of conscious awareness
Attitude - ANS -a psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favor or disfavor
Explicit attitude - ANS -when participants are directly asked to provide their attitudes toward various objects, people, or issues
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