Social Cognition
The mental processes we use to think about and evaluate other people.
Person Perception?
This refers to an individual’s (or group’s) ability to control or influence another person (or group), even when they try to resist this influence.
power
This is the ability to distribute our attention so that two or more activities may be performed simultaneously.
divided attention
This is a person who is more sensitive to certain tastes than most others, especially bitter foods.
supertaster
This contains the independent variable, dependent variable, a direction word and populaton.
hypothesis
The tendency to allow our overall positive impression of a person to influence our beliefs and expectations about the person in other qualities.
Halo effect
American psychologist ________ investigated factors that can influence obedience to an authority figure.
Stanley Milgram
This is a social factor influencing taste perception; generally, we like and prefer tastes we grow up with. Research studies have found that familiarity with a food influences how we perceive it and whether we ultimately eat it.
culture
This explanation for the Muller-Lyer illusion proposes that the illusion occurs because of its similarity to familiar architectural features in the real three-dimensional world we experience as part of everyday life.
carpentered world hypothesis
This is based on our acceptance of a person as being part of an established social order
Legitimate Power
1. This is any group you belong to or identify with.
2. This is any group you do not belong to or identify with.
1. ingroup
2. outgroup
This is a way of thinking by individual members of a group characterised by a strong tendency to seek agreement when decision-making or problem-solving, thereby overriding any realistic consideration of possible alternative, better options.
groupthink
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This occurs when perception is guided and influenced by cognitive processes, such as drawing on your past experience, knowledge and expectations in order to interpret and assign meaning to raw sensory information.
top-down processing
After a car accident Mr A. had difficulty recognising familiar faces and objects. He could recognise his family and friends by their voices but not by sight. If separated from his wife when shopping, he was unable to find her again.
This man's symptoms can be explained by:
agnosia
Zimbardo stated his study was unethical: "because people suffered and others were allowed to inflict pain and humiliation on their fellows over an extended period of time". The ethical concept this breaches is:
Non-Maleficence.
This is the tendency to overestimate personal factors, and underestimate situational factors when judging other people's behaviour.
fundamental attribution error
Milgram found that, the closer the learner (‘victim’) was to the teacher (person administering the shock), the more likely that person was to refuse to administer the shock. This is an example of...
social proximity
This involves the automatic adjustment of the shape of the lens to focus an object in response to changes in how far away the object is.
accommodation
When Matthew Blakeslee shapes hamburger patties with his hands, he experiences a vivid bitter taste in his mouth. To Sean Day, the taste of beef is dark blue and the smell of almonds is pale orange. And when Jeff Coleman looks at printed black numbers, he sees them in colour, each a different colour.
synaesthesia
Participants were selected from the population by pulling names out of a hat.
random sampling
Identify the Affective, Behavioural, and Cognitive Components of this Attitude: A person may dislike watching soccer, because they believe there are not enough goals, but they may choose to attend a match because their friends are going.
A - dislike watching soccer.
B - choose to attend a match.
C - believe there are not enough goals.
These factors influenced the rate of conformity in Asch's famous line length experiments (hint: there are 6).
Normative Influence, Informational Influence, Unanimity, Group Size, Deindividuation
This refers to the tendency to visually perceive the object that produces the largest image on the retina as being closer, and the object that produces the smallest image on the retina as being further away.
relative size
Mr V. is a patient in a rehabilitation facility. Soon after waking in the morning, he proceeds to shave his face. When he puts the shaver down to go to breakfast, it is apparent that he shaved only the right side of his face.
The disorder Mr V. is experiencing is:
Spatial neglect
All participants are exposed to both the experimental and control conditions of the experiment.
Wihthin-subjects design