Social Ch. 3

Psychology 241 with Hannah at Wheaton College (IL)

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priming

activating particular associations in memory

belief perseverance

persistence of one's initial conceptions, as when the basis for one's belief is discredited but an explanation of why the belief might be true survives

misinformation effect

incorporating "misinformation" into on'es memory of the event, after witnessing an event and receiving misleading information about it

controlled processing

explicit thinking that is deliberate, reflective, and conscious

automatic processing

implicit thinking that is effortless, habitual, and without awareness, roughly corresponds to intuition

overconfidence phenomenon

tendency to be more confident that correct - to overestimate the accuracy of one's beliefs

confirmation bias

tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions

heuristic

thinking strategy that enables quick, efficient judgments

representative heuristic

tendency to presume, sometimes despite contrary odds, that someone or something belongs to a particular grou if resembling a typical member

availability heuristic

cognitive rule that judges the likelihood of things in terms of their availability in memory. If instances of something come readily to mind, we presume it to be commonplace

counterfactual thinking

imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that might have happened, bud didn't

illusory correlation

perception of a relationship where none exists, or perception of a stronger relationship than actually exists

illusion of control

perception of uncontrollable events as subject to one's control or as more controllable than they are

regression toward the average

the statistical tendency for extreme scores or extremem behaviors to return toward one's average

misattribution

mistakenly attributing a behavior to the wrong source

attribution theory

theory of how people explain others' behavior; for example, by attributin it either to internal dispositions or to external situations

dispositional attribution

attributing behavior to the person's disposition and traits

situational attribution

attributing behavior to the environment

fundamental attribution error

tendency for observers to underestimate situational factors and overestimate dispositional influences in others' behavior

self-awareness

self-conscious state in which attention focusses on oneself

self-fulfilling prophecy

a belief that leads to its own fulfillment

behavioral confirmation

type of self-fulfilling prophecy whereby people's social expectations lead them to behave in ways that cause others to confirm their expectations

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