Pysch Ch 13

What is social cognition?

• A person's thoughts about other people and the social world
• A person's level of intelligence
• A person's physical appearance
• A person's social status

What is an attribution?

• An explanation of the cause of behavior
• A person's level of intelligence
• A person's physical appearance
• A person's social status

What are the two distinct categories of attribution theory?

• Emotions and thoughts
• Traits within the individual and the situation surrounding the individual
• Intelligence and personality
• Physical appearance and social status

What is the fundamental attribution error?

• Overestimating the importance of traits and underestimating the importance of the situation when explaining the behavior of other people
• Overestimating the importance of the situation and underestimating the importance of traits when explaining our own behavior
• Overestimating the importance of traits and underestimating the importance of the situation when explaining our own behavior
• Overestimating the importance of the situation and underestimating the importance of traits when explaining the behavior of other people

What is an attitude?

• A person's social status
• A person's level of intelligence
• A person's physical appearance
• A viewpoint that affects your responses to people, things, or situations

What are explicit attitudes?

• The attitudes we don't know we have
• The attitudes we know we have, the ones we can easily and accurately describe
• The attitudes we have towards others
• The attitudes we have towards ourselves

What are implicit attitudes?

• The attitudes we have towards ourselves
• The attitudes we have towards others
• Much more automatic and involuntary, lying a bit below the surface of our awareness, a bit more difficult to acknowledge
• The attitudes we know we have, the ones we can easily and accurately describe

What is the biology of explicit attitudes?

• They come from the hippocampus, which is responsible for memory
• They emerge straight from the amygdala, which processes emotion
• They come from the frontal cortex (specifically, the orbitofrontal cortex region), which allows for deliberate cognitive processing
• They come from the cerebellum, which is responsible for motor control

What is the biology of implicit attitudes?

• They emerge straight from the amygdala, which processes emotion
• They come from the hippocampus, which is responsible for memory
• They come from the frontal cortex (specifically, the orbitofrontal cortex region), which allows for deliberate cognitive processing
• They come from the cerebellum, which is responsible for motor control

What is the difference between explicit and implicit attitudes?

• Explicit attitudes are the attitudes we have towards others, while implicit attitudes are the attitudes we have towards ourselves
• Explicit attitudes are the attitudes we don't know we have, while implicit attitudes are the attitudes we know we have
• Explicit attitudes are the attitudes we have towards ourselves, while implicit attitudes are the attitudes we have towards others
• Explicit attitudes are the attitudes we know we have, the ones we can easily and accurately describe, while implicit attitudes are much more automatic and involuntary, lying a bit below the surface of our awareness, a bit more difficult to acknowledge