Quiz on Social Beliefs and Judgments Ch.3

What is the main topic of Chapter 3?

• Memory reconstructions

• Attitudes and Behavior

• Social Beliefs and Judgments

• Self processes

What is the role of System 1 processes in social judgments?

• Always accurate

• Always inefficient

• Impulsive and without awareness

• Deliberate and conscious

What is overconfidence in the context of social judgments?

• Underestimating the accuracy of our beliefs

• Overestimating the accuracy of our beliefs

• Always seeking disconfirming evidence

• Being realistic about our confidence levels

What can help reduce the overconfidence bias?

• Giving prompt feedback

• Increasing the time interval to complete tasks

• Using more System 1 processes

• Ignoring feedback

What is the confirmation bias?

• Seeking disconfirming evidence

• Always being accurate in our judgments

• Refraining from seeking disconfirming evidence

• Being realistic about our confidence levels

What is the importance of our own attitudes, beliefs, and values in social perceptions?

• They can lead to prejudgments

• They have no impact

• They are always accurate

• They always minimize biases

What is belief perseverance?

• Holding on to beliefs despite contrary evidence

• Always seeking new information

• Changing beliefs easily

• Being open to changing beliefs

What is the misinformation effect?

• Accurate memory recall

• Ignoring misleading information

• Memory reconstructions influenced by misleading information

• Always remembering events correctly

What is the focus of Attribution Theory?

• How we make decisions

• How we form attitudes

• How we perceive causality of behaviors

• How we remember events

What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?

• A belief that leads to its own fulfillment

• A belief that is always false

• A belief that has no impact on behavior

• A belief that is always true