UVM PSYS 130 Final Exam UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Social Cognition - CORRECT ANSWER - How we think about, select, interpret, and
remember social information to make judgements and decisions
Automatic Processing - CORRECT ANSWER - thinking that is unconscious, don't have to
carefully consider what we are doing (like counting from 1-10)
Controlled Processing - CORRECT ANSWER - effortful, consciously thinking (like
thinking of a question, or studying for a test)
Schemas - CORRECT ANSWER - mental structures people use to organize their
knowledge about the social world
Chronic Accessibility - CORRECT ANSWER - schemas that are always at the forefront of
our brain
Temporary Accessibility - CORRECT ANSWER - we only pull those schemas up when
reminded of them
Temporary Accessibility - Priming - CORRECT ANSWER - an increases sensitivity to a
certain schema due to a recent experience
Primacy Effects - CORRECT ANSWER - First impressions are lasting, Hard to shake
EX: Someone said Nancy is a bad person, you meet her and she's normal and friendly, might
interpret her as fake
Halo Effect - CORRECT ANSWER - One good trait implies others
, Belief Perseverance - CORRECT ANSWER - Something gives evidence that our schema
is wrong, but we still hold on to it
Illusory Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER - Ex: bad driving and being from Connecticut
go together, think you're seeing it confirmed over and over, but it's actually just because you
have that schema in your mind
Illusion of Control - CORRECT ANSWER - Doing something that has no bearing on an
outcome, but you think you are somehow controlling it
Ironic Processing and Though Suppression - CORRECT ANSWER - The harder we are
trying not to think about something, the more we think about it
fundamental attribution error - CORRECT ANSWER - the tendency for observers, when
analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the
impact of personal disposition
Attributions - automatic - CORRECT ANSWER - Assume that a person's behavior was
due to something about that person
Attributions - controlled - CORRECT ANSWER - adjust attributions by considering the
situation
Actor/observer difference - CORRECT ANSWER - We see our own behaviors as caused
by situational factors, while the same behaviors in others are perceived as disposition-ally
motivated
Egocentric bias - CORRECT ANSWER - when participating in a group, we exaggerate the
amount and importance of our own contributions with respect to others
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Social Cognition - CORRECT ANSWER - How we think about, select, interpret, and
remember social information to make judgements and decisions
Automatic Processing - CORRECT ANSWER - thinking that is unconscious, don't have to
carefully consider what we are doing (like counting from 1-10)
Controlled Processing - CORRECT ANSWER - effortful, consciously thinking (like
thinking of a question, or studying for a test)
Schemas - CORRECT ANSWER - mental structures people use to organize their
knowledge about the social world
Chronic Accessibility - CORRECT ANSWER - schemas that are always at the forefront of
our brain
Temporary Accessibility - CORRECT ANSWER - we only pull those schemas up when
reminded of them
Temporary Accessibility - Priming - CORRECT ANSWER - an increases sensitivity to a
certain schema due to a recent experience
Primacy Effects - CORRECT ANSWER - First impressions are lasting, Hard to shake
EX: Someone said Nancy is a bad person, you meet her and she's normal and friendly, might
interpret her as fake
Halo Effect - CORRECT ANSWER - One good trait implies others
, Belief Perseverance - CORRECT ANSWER - Something gives evidence that our schema
is wrong, but we still hold on to it
Illusory Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER - Ex: bad driving and being from Connecticut
go together, think you're seeing it confirmed over and over, but it's actually just because you
have that schema in your mind
Illusion of Control - CORRECT ANSWER - Doing something that has no bearing on an
outcome, but you think you are somehow controlling it
Ironic Processing and Though Suppression - CORRECT ANSWER - The harder we are
trying not to think about something, the more we think about it
fundamental attribution error - CORRECT ANSWER - the tendency for observers, when
analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the
impact of personal disposition
Attributions - automatic - CORRECT ANSWER - Assume that a person's behavior was
due to something about that person
Attributions - controlled - CORRECT ANSWER - adjust attributions by considering the
situation
Actor/observer difference - CORRECT ANSWER - We see our own behaviors as caused
by situational factors, while the same behaviors in others are perceived as disposition-ally
motivated
Egocentric bias - CORRECT ANSWER - when participating in a group, we exaggerate the
amount and importance of our own contributions with respect to others
