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?
This type of bias occurs without conscious though, though it often has a noticeable influence on peoples' perceptions and actions.
What is implicit bias?
Theoretically, this procedure should create equivalence across study groups, allowing you to make assumptions about causality of the variable manipulated between the groups.
The processing of information into the memory system
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)
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?
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?
The system that involves conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual- spatial information, and of information retrieved from long- term memory
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?
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?
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.
This type of value relates to finding the information useful for some longer-term or ultimate goal.
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?
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"
These types of goals relate to wanting to understand something, to do something for the sake of the experience itself and the resulting learning.
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?
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.