Chapter 3: Learning Objective Summary Quiz

20 Questions

What is social cognition?

Thinking about the self and the world socially

Which term best describes nonconscious, unintentional, involuntary, and effortless thinking according to the text?

Automatic thinking

How do people use schemas in social cognition?

To organize and interpret new information

Why are schemas considered useful tools according to the text?

They reduce ambiguity about the social world

When are schemas most likely to be used according to the text?

When they are high in accessibility

What role does past knowledge play in automatic thinking?

It helps organize and interpret new information

Which term refers to mental structures for organizing knowledge about the social world?

'Schemas'

In what way is automatic thinking defined in the text?

'Nonconscious' and 'unintentional'

Why do people use schemas according to the text?

'To influence what they notice, think about, and remember'

What is the primary function of schemas according to the text?

To reduce ambiguity about the social world

What is the process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility of a schema?

Priming

Which type of thinking involves mental shortcuts that people use to make judgments quickly and efficiently?

Judgmental heuristics

What influences how we act towards others based on schemas or expectations?

Self-fulfilling prophecies

Which culture tends to have an analytic thinking style, focusing on the properties of objects without considering their surrounding context?

Western cultures

What type of thinking style focuses on the overall context and how objects relate to each other?

Holistic thinking

What is the term for mental changing some aspect of the past as a way of imagining what might have been?

Counterfactual reasoning

Which form of automatic thinking refers to acting on goals that have been recently primed?

Automatic goal pursuit

'Availability heuristic' is an example of which mental shortcut used for making judgments?

'Representativeness heuristic'

'Representativeness heuristic' classifies something according to what characteristic?

'How similar it is to a typical case'

'Controlled thinking' is described as conscious, intentional, voluntary, and ___.

'Effortful'

Test your knowledge on the advantages and disadvantages of schemas based on the summary of Learning Objective 3.1. Explore the key concepts related to automatic pilot thinking and low-effort social cognition.

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