Social Cognition Quiz

Social Cognition refers to:

• How we perceive other people

• How we explain (attribute) the behaviours of other people

• How we form attitudes towards people, including stereotypes that might lead to prejudice and discrimination

• How we interpret, analyse, remember, and use information to judge people in situations

• All of the above

The mental processes we use to form impressions and draw conclusions about the personal characteristics of other people are referred to as:

• person cognition

• person perception

• psychic abilities

• social perception

Name both ways these perceptions may be formed:

First impressions, whilst not always accurate, tend to guide our decision making around a person.

• True

• False

First impressions are based on:

• physical appearance and verbal cues

• physical appearance and non-verbal cues

• non-verbal cues and body language

• body language only

Salient characteristics refers to:

• Characteristics that are the least important to us

• anything that is not noticeable when we make first impressions

• Characteristics that we use to judge people once we get to know them really well

• anything that is noticeable compared to its surroundings or background that can influence our initial judgements of people

Attribution refers to:

• a type of body language

• An evaluation made about the causes of cognition and the process of making decisions

• An evaluation made about the causes of behaviour and the process of making this evaluation

• An evaluation made about first impressions and salient characteristics

Give an explanation of the two groups attributions are categorised into

"I failed the psychology test because I did not pay attention in class" This is an example of which type of attribution?

• Both external and internal

• salient characteristic

• External

• Internal

The Fundamental Attribution Error occurs when we explain other people's behaviour in terms of internal factors, while ignoring possible external factors.

• True

• False