Thinking Processes
Cognitively generated categories of all information
What is Schema?
When people think of how something is more common based on how quickly or vividly we can think of it
What is Availability Heuristic?
Your belief in your ability to achieve certain goals
What is Self-Efficacy?
Better memory for information related to self
What is Self refrence effecet?
When we engage in unrealistic optimism, we are protecting
What is our Self-esteem?
Schema can __ your memory, but also bias your memory
What is Assist?
Judging by resemblance. Seeing a stimulus (something or someone) as belonging to a group based on how similar it is to a typical object in that group
What is Representative Heuristic?
Our self concept is influenced by the gap between how we see
ourselves (our actual self) and how we want to see ourselves (our ideal self)
What is the Self-discrepancy theory?
What is our "ought" self?
What is what we believe we should be ?
As age increases, the spotlight effect ___
What is decreases?
when we make something available to you immediately
Priming
Mental shortcuts that allow people to make fast decisions
What is Cognitive Heuristic?
Efficacy is our beliefs about our own ___
What is capabilities?
Tendency to overestimate the extent to which other people share our opinions, attitudes, and behaviors
What is False Consensus Effect?
Professor Swift finds out she had your sibling in a previous class, she decides that you will sit in the front since she knows you will be a good student, after treating you well you end up exceeding her expectations.
What is pygmalion effect?
We notice and remember information consistent with our expectancies
Perceptual/Confirmation Bias
When people rely on an initial starting point to make their estimate
What is Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristic?
when we serve ourselves by changing the attribute for our behavior
What is Self-serving bias?
The tendency to overestimate the extent to which one's own appearance and behavior are obvious to others
What is Spotlight Effect?
Eating more from a large plate
What is Framing?
A fancy word for thinking/thought processes
Cogniton
Mental representation of overall sense of “you”
What is Self-concept?
Creating obstacles to success so that potential failure can be blamed on these external factors as opposed to internal traits
the phenomenon whereby others expectations of a target person affect the target person's performance
What is Pygmalion effect?
Chris decides to wear his dodger jersey the day of the big game, Diego decides to wear his Yankee jersey. The two of them argue and decide they should not be friends anymore until the world series is over. What are they representing?
What is Social Identity Theory?