Final Exam - PSYCHOLOGY 1004:
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Social Cognition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The thoughts we have about the stimuli
in our environment, which typically arise when a schema is activated.
Schemas - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Mental categories our brain uses to make a
judgment about our surroundings in order to save processing power. At
their most basic level, they help us assess our approach to stimuli, and
more complex types can infer personality characteristics of people around
us and suggest how we should act.
Social Cognitive Biases - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A reliance on schemas to make
assumptions about social situations; they are often incomplete but have
solidified over time and become a bias.
Attribution - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An assumption of why a person is acting a
certain way.
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,Fundamental Attribution Error - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Attributing a person's
behavior to what we assume to be his/her personality rather than factors
outside of that individual.
Self-Serving Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Taking credit for our successes and
blaming failures on situational factors in order to maintain a positive view of
ourselves.
Affiliation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Connecting with others you identify with in
some way (ethnicity, political beliefs, etc.)
In-Group - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A group with which an individual is affiliated.
Out-Group - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A group an individual believes he/she is not a
part of nor affiliated with in particular ways.
Intergroup Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The tendency to favor an in-group and
undervalue out-groups.
In-Group Favoritism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Believing our in-group is better than
certain out-groups, and benefiting that in-group through thoughts and/or
actions.
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, Group-Serving Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Accepting positive aspects of our in-
group despite evidence that contradicts these beliefs.
Attraction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Feeling interested or drawn to another person
as a result of the individual's characteristics or social standing.
Social Comparison - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Self-evaluation by comparison to
others.
Homogeneity Effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The assumption that members of a
particular out-group are "homogeneous," or very similar to each other on
particular characteristics.
Halo Effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The tendency to make assumptions about a
person based on a single positive characteristic.
Prejudice - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Negative attitudes resulting from stereotypes.
Intergroup Contact Therapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A theory that states prejudice
is based on a lack of information, and more contact between groups will
lead to greater understanding and less prejudice.
Discrimination - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Negative action stemming from a
stereotype.
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and Answers | 100% Pass
Social Cognition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The thoughts we have about the stimuli
in our environment, which typically arise when a schema is activated.
Schemas - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Mental categories our brain uses to make a
judgment about our surroundings in order to save processing power. At
their most basic level, they help us assess our approach to stimuli, and
more complex types can infer personality characteristics of people around
us and suggest how we should act.
Social Cognitive Biases - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A reliance on schemas to make
assumptions about social situations; they are often incomplete but have
solidified over time and become a bias.
Attribution - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An assumption of why a person is acting a
certain way.
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,Fundamental Attribution Error - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Attributing a person's
behavior to what we assume to be his/her personality rather than factors
outside of that individual.
Self-Serving Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Taking credit for our successes and
blaming failures on situational factors in order to maintain a positive view of
ourselves.
Affiliation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Connecting with others you identify with in
some way (ethnicity, political beliefs, etc.)
In-Group - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A group with which an individual is affiliated.
Out-Group - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A group an individual believes he/she is not a
part of nor affiliated with in particular ways.
Intergroup Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The tendency to favor an in-group and
undervalue out-groups.
In-Group Favoritism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Believing our in-group is better than
certain out-groups, and benefiting that in-group through thoughts and/or
actions.
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, Group-Serving Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Accepting positive aspects of our in-
group despite evidence that contradicts these beliefs.
Attraction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Feeling interested or drawn to another person
as a result of the individual's characteristics or social standing.
Social Comparison - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Self-evaluation by comparison to
others.
Homogeneity Effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The assumption that members of a
particular out-group are "homogeneous," or very similar to each other on
particular characteristics.
Halo Effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The tendency to make assumptions about a
person based on a single positive characteristic.
Prejudice - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Negative attitudes resulting from stereotypes.
Intergroup Contact Therapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A theory that states prejudice
is based on a lack of information, and more contact between groups will
lead to greater understanding and less prejudice.
Discrimination - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Negative action stemming from a
stereotype.
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