WorksheetsSocial psychology
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 27mins
(a) concerns how we think about the social world and our attempts to understand complex issues.
What is heuristics?
_________suggests that the more similar an individual is to typical members of a given group,more likely he/she is to belong to that group.
Schemas
Availability heuristic
Representative heuristic
Incomprehensible information
Judgements based on representativeness are mainly wrong because,
Our capacity to process incoming information is limited
Decisions made on the basis of this rule tend to ignore base rates.
Our ability to focus can easily be exceeded.
All of the above
In what way can the availability heuristic influence us?
If the judgement involves emotions or feelings we tend to rely on____rule,if the judgement involves facts we rely more on____rule.
(a)
Court decisions and sentences can be strongly influenced by_____
Availability heuristic
Anchoring and adjustment heuristic
Representative heuristic
Schematic heuristic
(a) indicates how shortcuts in social thought can have the real consequences in important life context.
What is portion size effect?
______are a basic component of social cognition.
Representativeness
Anchoring and adjustment
Priming
Schemas
Schemas influence three basic processes of social cognition:
processing, interpreting, organizing
Attention, encoding,retrieval
Behaviour, variation, selection.
________is a process by which thoughts or actions primed by a recent experience dissipate once they find expression .
Priming
Schemas
Unpriming
Incogruent
(a) is primed activated by some experience ,event or stimulus
Schemas show a strong (a) remaining unchanged even in the face of contradictory information.
What is metaphor?
Social thought occur in fast relatively effortless and intuitive manner is called ?
Controlled processing
Automatic social behaviour
Automatic Processing
Cognitive framework
A basic kind of social judgement relating to whether we like or dislike something- ____
(a) offers advantages like satisfactory decisions.
What happens when schemas or other cognitive framework are activated ?
People make better decisions in terms of satisfaction when they choose_______.
Hostile behaviour
Concious
Immediate
Automatic
