Social Cognition Basics
This type of conditioning involves learning through rewards and punishments.
What is operant conditioning?
This is the term for mental shortcuts we use to make quick decisions.
What are heuristics (or cognitive heuristics)?
This legal scholar coined the modern-day conceptualization of "intersectionality."
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
Name three of the six basic emotions.
What are happiness, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, and surprise? (any three)
This term refers to your knowledge and beliefs about who you are.
What is self-concept?
This type of learning occurs by watching others' behaviors.
What is observational learning (or modeling)?
This heuristic judges likelihood based on how easily examples come to mind.
What is the availability heuristic?
This term describes when multiply-marginalized groups' experiences become invisible in research.
What is intersectional invisibility?
This hormone is released during stress and is part of the body's stress response system.
What is cortisol?
This term refers to publicly induced self-awareness about how others judge us.
What is self-consciousness?
This mental framework helps us organize and interpret information about the world.
What is a schema?
This heuristic involves judging people based on how well they match our stereotypes or expectations.
What is the representativeness heuristic?
Intersectionality promotes this type of justice by centering marginalized voices in research.
What is epistemic justice?
According to Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, this term describes the cumulative childhood experiences that predict poor health outcomes.
What are ACEs (or Adverse Childhood Experiences)?
These are mental frameworks specifically about ourselves that guide how we process self-relevant information.
What are self-schemas?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! This process involves fitting new information into existing schemas without changing them.
What is assimilation?
This bias occurs when we seek out information that confirms our existing beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
This 5-letter acronym is used to describe the populations that have traditionally dominated psychology research.
What is WEIRD? (Westernized, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democracies)
When the hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal glands (HPA axis) are activated by stress, they trigger these survival responses.
What is fight, flight, freeze, or fawn?
This term refers to adjusting our behavior based on social cues from others.
What is self-monitoring?
This process occurs when new information doesn't fit existing schemas, so we modify or create new schemas.
What is accommodation?
This bias occurs when we overestimate how much others share our beliefs and values.
What is false consensus bias?
Intersectionality challenges this type of thinking that examines race OR gender OR class separately.
What is single-axis thinking?
According to two-factor theory, emotions equal arousal plus this (Emotions + Arousal= ________)
What is cognition?
Critical psychologists argue the self is not fixed but socially constructed through these.
What are social interactions (or social practices/power relations)?