COM 212 EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

COM 212 EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

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1. Mindlessness
Answer:
Occurs when we become trapped in old categories of thought, fail to attend to new information, and rely on
one perspective

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2. Mindfulness
Answer:
Active information processing and encourages the creation of new categories Meditation

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3. Auto-motives
Answer:
We each hold auto-motives Motivations that operate outside of our awareness, influenced by our social
worlds Motives can be primed

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4. Schemata
Answer:
Schemata: cognitive structures we use to make sense of the world Example: how we learned/taught

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5. Principle of least effect
Answer:
Principle of least effort: relying on preexisting concepts rather than to specific details from the current
situation Example; Stereotypes

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6. Social cognition
Answer:
Social Cognition: using cognitive structures to see the world, we see what we are told to see How you are
told to see the world controls how you see it

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7. Prototypes
Answer:
w do we describe & classify others? Personal constructs (tall, smart, kind) Person prototypes (jock, nerd)
Stereotypes

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8. Exemplars

, Answer:
the individual instances, or examples, of a concept that are stored in memory from personal experience

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9. Personal construct
Answer:
How do we describe & classify others? Personal constructs (tall, smart, kind) Person prototypes (jock,
nerd) Stereotypes

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10. Person prototype
Answer:
mental category we use to classify and label others

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11. Stereotype
Answer:
A generalized belief about a group of people

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12. Role schemata
Answer:
Role schemata (father, mother, president)

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13. Relational schemata
Answer:
Relational schemata (romantic partner, friend)

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14. Self-schemata
Answer:
Self-schemata (aspirations, values, attributes, preferences, behavior)

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15. Event schemata
Answer:
register our beliefs and expectations about different kinds of social situations

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16. Scripts
Answer:
broad representations in memory of events and the order in which they occur

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17. Central traits