Question 1

Which of the following best describes social cognition?

Accepted Answer

The way people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions about themselves and others.

Question 2

A teacher expects a student to be disruptive. As a result, the teacher is stricter with the student, who then becomes more disruptive. This is an example of:

Accepted Answer

A self-fulfilling prophecy

Question 3

Which of the following is an example of an event schema?

Accepted Answer

Expecting a sequence of actions when dining at a restaurant

Question 4

According to the covariation model, which of the following is necessary to determine the cause of someone's behavior?

Accepted Answer

Noting the pattern between the presence or absence of possible causal factors and whether or not the behavior occurs

Question 5

Which of the following best illustrates the availability heuristic?

Accepted Answer

Judging the likelihood of plane crashes as high after seeing news coverage of a recent crash

Question 6

A major problem with schemas is that:

Accepted Answer

They operate automatically, making it difficult for us to know when we’re using them.

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT a type of schema?

Accepted Answer

Heuristic schema

Question 8

The fundamental attribution error refers to:

Accepted Answer

The tendency to overestimate the extent to which people’s behavior stems from personality traits and to underestimate the role of situational factors.

Question 9

Which of the following best describes the two-step process of making attributions?

Accepted Answer

First, we make an internal (dispositional) judgment; then, we may adjust for situational factors if we have the time and motivation.

Question 10

Which of the following is an example of embodied cognition?

Accepted Answer

Feeling warmer toward someone when holding a hot drink

Question 11

Which of the following best distinguishes the availability heuristic from accessibility?

Accepted Answer

Availability refers to the ease or difficulty of bringing a concept to mind, while accessibility refers to information on your mind at any given moment.

Question 12

A person believes that all police officers are strict and authoritative. This is an example of which type of schema?

Accepted Answer

Role schema

Question 13

Which of the following scenarios best illustrates the representativeness heuristic?

Accepted Answer

Assuming a quiet, bookish person is more likely to be a librarian than a salesperson, despite there being more salespeople than librarians

Question 14

Which of the following is a real-world example of counterfactual thinking?

Accepted Answer

After missing a train, imagining that you would have arrived on time if you had left the house five minutes earlier

Question 15

Which of the following best describes the concept of priming?

Accepted Answer

The process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility of a schema, trait, or concept

Question 16

A student believes that being 'outgoing' is often associated with being 'funny' and 'adventurous.' This belief is an example of:

Accepted Answer

Implicit Personality Theory

Question 17

Which of the following best explains why people often make the fundamental attribution error?

Accepted Answer

Perceptual salience leads us to focus on the person rather than the situation.

Question 18

Which of the following is a key advantage of automatic processing?

Accepted Answer

We can use our cognitive resources for other more important matters.

Question 19

A person is more likely to use priming and accessibility when interpreting which type of event?

Accepted Answer

Ambiguous

Question 20

Which of the following best defines attribution theory?

Accepted Answer

A framework explaining how people infer the causes of behavior, either by attributing it to personal characteristics or situational factors.

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