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Social Cognition
More Social Cognition
Research/Learning
Memory/Problem Solv
Misconcep/Motiv.
100

This is the idea is that people transfer positive perceptions about a person based on one domain to making positive assumptions about an unrelated domain.

What is the halo effect? 

100

This type of bias occurs without conscious though, though it often has a noticeable influence on peoples' perceptions and actions.

What is implicit bias? 

100

Theoretically, this procedure should create equivalence across study groups, allowing you to make assumptions about causality of the variable manipulated between the groups.

What is random assignment? (This is also one of the most accepted way we can be justified in claiming a causal direction of observed effects)
100

The processing of information into the memory system

What is encoding? (and remember- you only encode what you pay attention to in the first place)
100
These are beliefs we have based on some fact that we learned at some point, but that is not actually true.

What are factual misconceptions? (for example, that your blood is blue when it doesn't have oxygen- explanation if you don't believe it: http://mentalfloss.com/article/24249/if-blood-red-why-do-veins-look-blue)

200

This is a label that refers to the ability to make inferences and reason about others' thinking and mental states. 

What is theory of mind?

200

The classic "Bobo doll" studies conducted by Bandura, and the example of people choosing an incorrect answer to a problem based on other peoples' choice of that answer, are both examples of this type of social learning.

What is modeling? 

200
These terms describe a) the ability of your measure to actually assess what you are trying to assess, and b) the accuracy of your measure, indicated by giving the same score each time you use it if nothing has changed.
What are a) validity and b) reliability? (Both are important to consider when determining the usefulness of research results!)
200

The system that involves conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual- spatial information, and of information retrieved from long- term memory

What is working memory? (and having too much going on mentally can cause too much cognitive load, crowding your working memory. Anxiety or stereotype threat can contribute to higher cognitive load.)
200
This is one of the most well-known misconceptions because of the incredibly negative impacts it has caused, such as reducing the rates of preventative measures related to more than 3 million deaths a year (1.5 million in children under 5) 
What is the misconception that vaccines cause autism? (I couldn't find the rate of deaths resulting from people choosing not to vaccinate; but the 3M is deaths by causes preventable by vaccines)
300

These are our ideas about what certain types or groups of people are like, developed and influenced by our culture and experiences.

What are social schemas? 

300

Being able to recognize, control, and express emotions in others and in yourself is a type of skill referred to as this. 

What is emotional intelligence? 

300
According to the ICAP theory of engagement in learning, this is the LEAST effective level of engagement.
What is passive engagement? (e.g., listening to a lecture, reading a book, watching a video)
300

Experts use this process, developed from a great deal of practice and experience, allowing them to use much less working memory than non-experts; they also see problems related to their expertise in this way, facilitating better problem solving.

What is developing automatization (becoming more automatic, so whole process is a single step) and more abstractly (how they see problems compared to novices)?
300

This type of value relates to finding the information useful for some longer-term or ultimate goal.

What is utility value? (hopefully the type of value you see in this course!)
400
This is the concept related to performance being negatively impacted by group members trying to avoid confirming a negative belief by society about the group they are a member of.
What is stereotype threat? 
400

This is the influence of interactions with people and the environment on one's social cognition, and can involve family, teachers, media, group memberships, culture, etc.

What is socialization? 

400
This is found to be the most important consideration when choosing a teaching "style" to maximize learning effectiveness.
What is the content being taught / what you want students to pay attention to and learn? (Remember- the idea that people will best learn from their preferred learning style is a misconception)
400

The first answer refers to using solutions that have worked in the past, even if others are better; the second one refers to being stuck thinking about things in the same way- limiting ability to "think outside the box"

What is mental set and functional fixedness? (functional fixedness might have been a reason you didn't think to use the match box as a holder for the candle in the in-class assignment)
400

These types of goals relate to wanting to understand something, to do something for the sake of the experience itself and the resulting learning.

What are mastery goals? (these are the type you should want to have!)
500
This specific type of cognition relates to the ways that everything about a specific context impacts our thinking - the time, place, other people around us, our goals, etc.
What is situated cognition? 
500

When we observe things in the world that happen to other people, we often benefit from those experiences almost as much as doing them ourselves. These personalized experiences from observations are seen at the neurological level as these. 

What are mirror neurons? 

500
Learning can be thought of as change to our "knowledge" or schemas we have, which we referred to as this. 
What are mental representations? (and experts have much more information/detail in their representations, as well as having a more complex structure with hierarchical levels, etc. of their representations)
500
This refers to applying something learned in one context to a problem experienced in some other context.
What is transfer? (using things you've learned in this class years down the road for your own learning would be multiple types of transfer! Both over time - temporal - and different context)
500

This type of skill, which we read about in the reading, relates to being able to monitor one's progress on tasks, recognize what is and isn't working, identify potentially better strategies, and more generally control one's behavior to accomplish goals.

What is self-regulated learning / self regulation. (This is what you need to make yourself use good time management for studying, reflect on your learning, seek help when needed, more generally be responsible for your learning through your choices in behavior!)