Social Cognition Quiz

What is social cognition?

• The study of how information about people is processed and stored

• The study of how people perceive themselves in a positive light

• The study of how people interact with each other

• The study of how people form opinions about others

What are social schemas?

• Mental representations that influence how we perceive others

• Concepts that influence how we interpret information

• Ideas about how people should behave in a public setting

• All of the above

How do schemas influence what we remember?

• By paying attention to things that are consistent with our current schemas

• By ignoring things that are inconsistent with our current schemas

• By distorting information to fit our current schemas

• By forgetting information that doesn't fit our current schemas

What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?

• When our expectations cause us to act in a manner that confirms our expectations

• When our expectations about others influence their behavior

• When our expectations about ourselves influence our behavior

• When our expectations are proven wrong

What is the attribution process?

• The process of explaining the causes of behavior

• The process of perceiving others in a positive light

• The process of forming opinions about others

• The process of remembering information about others

What are internal attributions?

• Explanations that look within an individual to explain an outcome

• Explanations that look outside of an individual to explain an outcome

• Explanations that involve fate, luck, or chance to explain an outcome

• Explanations that involve the social context to explain an outcome

What is the Fundamental Attribution Error?

• The tendency to make dispositional attributions about others and underestimate the influence of the situation

• The tendency to make situational attributions about others and underestimate the influence of their personality

• The tendency to attribute success to internal factors and failures to external factors

• The tendency to attribute success to external factors and failures to internal factors

What is the actor-observer bias?

• Attributing one's own behavior to external causes and others' behavior to internal causes

• Attributing one's own behavior to internal causes and others' behavior to external causes

• Attributing one's own behavior to situational causes and others' behavior to dispositional causes

• Attributing one's own behavior to dispositional causes and others' behavior to situational causes

What is the self-serving bias?

• The tendency to attribute success to external factors and failures to internal factors

• The tendency to attribute success to internal factors and failures to external factors

• The tendency to attribute success to luck and failures to personal effort

• The tendency to attribute success to personal effort and failures to luck

What is the just world hypothesis?

• The belief that good people are rewarded and bad people are punished

• The belief that good people are punished and bad people are rewarded

• The belief that people's actions have no consequences

• The belief that people's actions are determined by fate