Psych 350 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Priming - CORRECT ANSWER - Activating particular associations in memory.
Bells only mental butlers can hear
Intuition - CORRECT ANSWER - An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought,
as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning
Automatic Processing - CORRECT ANSWER - Self 1, automatic thinking without
awareness
Controlled Processing - CORRECT ANSWER - Self 2, deliberate, conscious thinking
Overconfidence - CORRECT ANSWER - the tendency to be more confident than
correct—to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments.
Confirmation Bias - CORRECT ANSWER - A tendency to search for information that
supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence
Heuristics - CORRECT ANSWER - Efficient and simple thinking strategies
Representative- Judging the likelihood of something happening based on how much it resembles
our idea of what usually happens in that situation
Availability- Judging the likelihood of an event based on how easily examples come to mind
Counterfactual Thinking - CORRECT ANSWER - Imagining alternative scenarios and
outcomes that might have happened, but didn't
Belief Perserverance - CORRECT ANSWER - Cognitive bias where one holds onto
initial beliefs when evidence contradicts the beliefs
, Misattribution - CORRECT ANSWER - Incorrectly attributing feelings, thoughts, or
behavior to sources or causes
Attribution Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - The framework of how one explains the
internal or external causes of behavior
Dispositional- an internal cause
Situational- an external cause
Fundamental Attribution Error - CORRECT ANSWER - Cognitive bias where individuals
tend to overestimate internal factors and underestimate external factors as they influence
behavior
Self-fulfilling Prophecy - CORRECT ANSWER - When expectation or belief about a
future event influences behavior in a way that leads to the expectation coming true
ABC's of attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER - A- Affect (Feelings)
B- Behavior Tendency
C- Cognition (Thoughts)
Implicit Bias - CORRECT ANSWER - When our unconscious thoughts or stereotypes
affect how we treat people without realizing it
Theory of Planned Behavior - CORRECT ANSWER - Our actions are influenced by 3
things: what we think about the behavior, what we think others expect from us, and how much
control we think we have over the behavior
Roles - CORRECT ANSWER - Patterns of behavior that are representative of a person's
social position
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Priming - CORRECT ANSWER - Activating particular associations in memory.
Bells only mental butlers can hear
Intuition - CORRECT ANSWER - An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought,
as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning
Automatic Processing - CORRECT ANSWER - Self 1, automatic thinking without
awareness
Controlled Processing - CORRECT ANSWER - Self 2, deliberate, conscious thinking
Overconfidence - CORRECT ANSWER - the tendency to be more confident than
correct—to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments.
Confirmation Bias - CORRECT ANSWER - A tendency to search for information that
supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence
Heuristics - CORRECT ANSWER - Efficient and simple thinking strategies
Representative- Judging the likelihood of something happening based on how much it resembles
our idea of what usually happens in that situation
Availability- Judging the likelihood of an event based on how easily examples come to mind
Counterfactual Thinking - CORRECT ANSWER - Imagining alternative scenarios and
outcomes that might have happened, but didn't
Belief Perserverance - CORRECT ANSWER - Cognitive bias where one holds onto
initial beliefs when evidence contradicts the beliefs
, Misattribution - CORRECT ANSWER - Incorrectly attributing feelings, thoughts, or
behavior to sources or causes
Attribution Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - The framework of how one explains the
internal or external causes of behavior
Dispositional- an internal cause
Situational- an external cause
Fundamental Attribution Error - CORRECT ANSWER - Cognitive bias where individuals
tend to overestimate internal factors and underestimate external factors as they influence
behavior
Self-fulfilling Prophecy - CORRECT ANSWER - When expectation or belief about a
future event influences behavior in a way that leads to the expectation coming true
ABC's of attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER - A- Affect (Feelings)
B- Behavior Tendency
C- Cognition (Thoughts)
Implicit Bias - CORRECT ANSWER - When our unconscious thoughts or stereotypes
affect how we treat people without realizing it
Theory of Planned Behavior - CORRECT ANSWER - Our actions are influenced by 3
things: what we think about the behavior, what we think others expect from us, and how much
control we think we have over the behavior
Roles - CORRECT ANSWER - Patterns of behavior that are representative of a person's
social position
