Automatic Processing and Controlled Processing Quiz

What is the term used for the information that is the focus of people’s attention?

Which type of mental processing involves forming conclusions based on stimuli encountered in the environment?

What leads to individuals acting in ways that cause others to confirm their expectations?

What is the term for a false impression of how other people are thinking, feeling, or responding?

What is the term for thinking strategies that enable quick, efficient judgments?

Which type of processing involves 'theory-driven' processing and interpreting new information in light of pre-existing knowledge and expectations?

Which bias involves the tendency to search for information that confirms one’s preconceptions?

What type of mental processing is quick, effortless, non-conscious, and habitual?

What does the representativeness heuristic involve?

What is the tendency for observers to underestimate situational influences and overestimate dispositional influences on other’s behavior called?

Which term refers to imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that might have happened, but did not?

What does the illusion of control involve?

What is the term for the mental shortcut whereby people classify something according to how similar it is to a typical case?

Which theory states that, in order to form an attribution about what caused a person’s behavior, we systematically note the pattern between the presence (or absence) of possible causal factors and whether or not the behavior occurs?

What is the term for the phenomenon where once a belief is formed, it can be resistant to change, even in the face of discrediting information?

What term describes the tendency to ignore base rate information?

Which term refers to the effortless automatic inference of a trait after exposure to someone’s behavior?

What influences how we think about and perceive the social world, leading us to store or remember positive information when in a positive mood, and negative information when in a negative mood?

What is the term for the mental rule of thumb whereby people base a judgment on the ease with which they can bring something to mind?

What do bottom-up processes involve?

What is the term for the phenomenon where beliefs lead to their own fulfillment?

Which type of processing involves 'theory-driven' processing and interpreting new information in light of pre-existing knowledge and expectations?

What does the term 'pluralistic ignorance' refer to?

What is the term for the mental structures people use to organize their knowledge about the social world around themes or subjects?

Which type of mental processing involves simultaneous use of bottom-up and top-down processes to perceive and understand the social world?

What is the term for the tendency to ignore base rate information?

Which term refers to mistakenly attributing a behavior to the wrong cause(s)?

What does the illusion of control involve?

What is the term for thinking strategies that enable quick, efficient judgments?

Which term refers to imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that might have happened, but did not?

What is the term for the tendency for observers to underestimate situational influences and overestimate dispositional influences on other’s behavior?

What is the term for the tendency to ignore base rate information?

Which mental shortcut involves classifying something according to how similar it is to a typical case?

What does the Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE) refer to?

What type of information is the focus of people's attention in Kelley's Covariation model?

What does the Availability Heuristic involve?

What refers to the phenomenon where once a belief is formed, it can be resistant to change?

Which theory states that, in order to form an attribution about what caused a person’s behavior, we systematically note the pattern between possible causal factors and whether or not the behavior occurs?

Which tendency involves imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that might have happened, but did not?