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14 Cards in this Set
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Thinking that is conscious, intentional, voluntary and effortful |
Controlled Thinking |
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people tend to have too much confidence in the accuracy of their judgements; their judgments are usually not as correct as they think they are. |
Overconfidence barrier |
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mentally changing some aspect of the past as a way of imagining what might have been |
counterfactual thinking |
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Analytic thinking |
a type of thinking in which people focus on the properites of objects without considering their surrounding context; this type of thinking is common in western culture |
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a type of thinking in which people focus on the overall context, particularly the ways in which objects relate to one antoher; this type of thinking is common in east asian cultures |
holistic thinking style |
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A mental shortcut whereby people classify something according to how similiar it is to a typical case |
Representative heuristic |
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Information about the frequency of members of different categories in the population |
base rate information |
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mental shortcuts peoplle use to make judgements quickly and efficiently. |
judmental heuristics |
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a mental shortcut whereby people base a judgment on the east with which they can bring information to mind. |
availability heuristic |
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The case whereby people have an expectation about what another person is like, which influences how they act towards that person, which, in turn, causes that person to behave consistently with their original expectations. |
self fulfilling prophecy |
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The process by which recent experiences increase the accessability of a schema, or concept. |
priming |
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The extent to which schemas and concepts are at the forefront, likely to be used when making judgments about the social world. |
accessibility |
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mental structures people use to organize their knowledge about the social world, themselves and that influeces the information people notice, think about and remember. |
schemas |
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thinking is is conconsious, unintentional, involunatry and effortless. |
automatic thinking |
