PSY 2206 Chapters 1-3

Which description below most accurately matches the word 'cognition'?

• To think

• To influence

• To question

• To resist

This type of thinking is slow and takes effort.

This is the process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility of a schema, trait, concept, or goal.

• Counterfactual Thinking

• Planning

• Priming

• Controlled Thinking

John believes that he can complete his Social Psychology paper quicker than he actually can. This fallacy is known as...

• The Halo Fallacy

• The Planning Fallacy

• The Procrastination Fallacy

• The Broken Mirror Fallacy

If someone is told that they're going to fail over and over again, and then they fail or believe themselves to be a failure, then this is probably an example of what?..

• Barrel Roll

• Audacity Approach

• Self-fulfilling Prophecy

• Prediction Effect

This is the conviction that we perceive things "as they really are"...

• Heuristicism

• Schematicism

• Misattribution

• Naive Realism

This is a person's evaluation of their own self-worth, such as the extent to which they view themselves as good, competent, or decent.

This video is a clip of what famous experiment? This experiment discovered how the perception of an authority figure can influence a person's behavior.

• Rubik's Report

• Stanford Prison Experiment

• Harlow's Monkey

• Stanley-Milgram Experiment

What three concepts help us determine if research is "good" research?

• Credibility, reliability, and validity

• Credibility, transferability, and capability

• Reliability, transferability, and validity

• Projectability, transferability, and validity

Researchers attempt to maintain this during their studies to make sure the results of their study reflect psychological processes in every day life as closely as possible.

• Transferable Vex

• Psychological Realism

• Validity

• Sociological Variability