PSYC 1004 EXAM 4 2024/2025 Exam
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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 quickly
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 schemas 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 (e.g., the situation)
Self-Serving Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Taking credit for our successes and
blaming failures on situational factors in order to maintain a positive view of
ourselves
Cognitive Load - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The notion that people can only process
so much information at once, given their capabilities and the
amount/intensity of the stimuli around them
Cognitive Misers - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔they try to use as little processing power
possible to make decisions, typically by heavy reliance on schemas to
navigate their environment
Affiliation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Connecting with others you identify with in
some way
In-Group - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A group with which an individual is affiliated
Out-Group - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A group an individual believes s/he is not a
part of nor affiliated with in particular ways
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, Intergroup Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The tendency to favor an in-group (with
which we identify) and undervalue out-groups (those with which we do not
identify)
In-Group Favoritism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Believing our in-group is better than
certain out-groups, and benefitting that in-group through thoughts and/or
actions
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 (i.e., physical, intellectual, or
emotional) or social standing (i.e., popularity, power, or affiliation)
Social Comparison - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Self-evaluation by comparison with
others (i.e., "I'm smarter than they are" or "I'm more attractive than
her/him")
Homogeneity Effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The assumption that members of a
particular out-group are "homogenous," or very similar to each other on
particular characteristics
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Questions and Corresponding Answers
with Surety of 100% Pass Mark
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 quickly
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 schemas 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 (e.g., the situation)
Self-Serving Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Taking credit for our successes and
blaming failures on situational factors in order to maintain a positive view of
ourselves
Cognitive Load - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The notion that people can only process
so much information at once, given their capabilities and the
amount/intensity of the stimuli around them
Cognitive Misers - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔they try to use as little processing power
possible to make decisions, typically by heavy reliance on schemas to
navigate their environment
Affiliation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Connecting with others you identify with in
some way
In-Group - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A group with which an individual is affiliated
Out-Group - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A group an individual believes s/he is not a
part of nor affiliated with in particular ways
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, Intergroup Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The tendency to favor an in-group (with
which we identify) and undervalue out-groups (those with which we do not
identify)
In-Group Favoritism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Believing our in-group is better than
certain out-groups, and benefitting that in-group through thoughts and/or
actions
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 (i.e., physical, intellectual, or
emotional) or social standing (i.e., popularity, power, or affiliation)
Social Comparison - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Self-evaluation by comparison with
others (i.e., "I'm smarter than they are" or "I'm more attractive than
her/him")
Homogeneity Effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The assumption that members of a
particular out-group are "homogenous," or very similar to each other on
particular characteristics
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