Cognitive Biases
Kelley's Covariation Model
Cognitive Processing
Miscellaneous
100
Franklin got an F on his math exam and blamed his teacher for being a jerk.
What is the self serving bias?
100
The three types of information people search for when making an attribution. BONUS points for explaining each.
What are consensus, consistency, and distinctiveness?
100
In class on Tuesday, you memorized a list of words having to do with the ocean and then many of you named Tide when I had you name a laundry detergent.
What is priming?
100
As Emily and Rick are chatting, Emily rests her head on her chin. Without thinking about it, Rick does the same. Both feel like their conversation went really well.
What is the chameleon effect?
200
Phoebe noticed that Hillary's bedroom was a disaster and concluded that she was a slob.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
200
The type of attribution one would likely make with low consensus, high consistency, and low distinctiveness. For example: Why did Samantha swim in the pool at the hotel? No other people were swimming; she swam yesterday; she swims every time she's somewhere with a pool.
What is a personal attribution (e.g., Samantha loves to swim)?
200
This type of processing happens without awareness, effort, intent or control
What is automatic processing?
200
The study of how people think about and make sense of others, themselves and social situations
What is social cognition?
300
A teacher believes all of the boys in her class are unintelligent. At the end of the year, the boys score much lower on their standardized tests than the girls.
What is self fulfilling prophecy?
300
People are likely to make situational attributions when these conditions are met.
What are high consensus, high consistency and high distinctiveness?
300
Wegner et al. found that when participants were under mental load and were told not to let the pendulum swing from side to side, it did just that.
What are ironic effects of mental control?
300
This theory says that when we see someone doing something, we try to figure out if it corresponds to a stable characteristic about the person.
What is correspondence inference theory?
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