Unit 10 quiz 1

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What is the term to explain that certain behaviors are unintentional, uncontrollable, occur outside of conscious awareness, or are cognitively efficient?

Automaticity

The durability bias occurs when a person overestimates how long their feelings might last. This bias is a type of:

Affective forecasting

What is it called for the tendency of individuals to nonconsciously mimic the postures, mannerisms, facial expressions, and other behaviors of one's interaction partners?

Chameleon effect

Someone who commonly receives bad grades, but believes that they are a good student can fall into the trap of what type of bias?

Hot cognition

What is the mental processes that are influenced by desires and feelings?

Hot cognition

What can be used to measure an attitude when one might not want to admit it explicitly? xxx

Implicit association test all the above(said because i found out that the Semantic-differential test.. was also a test on this) x

If you are in a good mood and think back to many good memories, then you might state that your life is "good." This process can be attributed to what?

Mood-congruent memory

When preparing to write a paper for a class you decide that it should only take three hours, but in reality it takes twice as long. This is an example of:

Planning fallacy

____________ occur(s) when you make a decision quickly based on time constraints and are not particularly concerned about the quality of the decision.

The need for closure

Which of the following is a possible outcome when individuals' implicit and explicit attitudes do not match?

They are unaware they hold an actual bias, such as a bias towards an ethnic minority

Which is NOT one of the ways that directional goals can bias our thinking?

Unrealistic self-view

What is the heuristic in which the frequency or likelihood of an event is evaluated based on how easily instances of it come to mind?

availability heuristic

Implicit attitudes can sometimes ___________ explicit attitudes.

contradict

Calvin is interested in measuring his school's willingness to do volunteer work around the community. He sends out a self-report survey that asks students to directly fill out their _________ attitudes on the topic.

explicit

Asking someone, on a scale of 1 to 10, "How sexist do you consider yourself?" Would be considered measuring the individual's ___________.

explicit attitude

People are usually ___________ in their accuracy of their perceptions.

overconfident


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