SOP 3004 - Exam 1 Latest Update Already Passed

SOP 3004 - Exam 1 Latest Update Already Passed 3 principles of natural selection and sexual selection variation, heritability, differential survival/reproductive success 3 types of feelings attitudes, emotions, and moods 4 core processes of social cognition attention, interpretation, judgement, memory 4 goals of social cognition - to be flexible - to conserve mental effort (be efficient) - to think well of oneself - to be accurate 5 fundamental social motives - to establish social ties - to understand ourselves and others - to gain and maintain status - to defend ourselves and those we value - to attract and retain mates 6 ways that the person and situation work together - different people respond differently to the same situation - situations choose the person - people choose their situations - different situations prime different parts of the person - persons change the situation - situations change the person actor-observer bias the fundamental attribution error PLUS biased attributions for own behavior adaptions characteristics well-suited to particular environments; lead to survival and procreation; leads to probabilistic changes in a population affordances an opportunity or threat anchoring and adjustment heuristic we start with a rough estimate as an anchor (starting point) & then adjust from there - saves time and effort - if we select a good anchor and make appropriate adjustments, the strategy will be efficient and effective appearing likeable more important for women - women smile more - women are more likely to adjust their opinions - women are more concerned with physical attractiveness - women have less testosterone appearing powerful/dominant more important for men - men claim larger zones of personal space - men are more likely to signal status by consciously spending on luxurious goods - men have more testosterone aronson and mills (1959) study - 63 college women in a study on "discussing sex" - pre-study "screening" - experimentally manipulated initiation severity - randomly assigned - group 1: no test (control group) - group 2: mild initiation test (recitation of neutral words and text) - group 3: difficult initiation test (recitation of obscene words and text) arousal (person-factor) may lead to simplifying strategies because: - it is distracting - makes it more difficult to think in controlled, complex