Quiz 3 in Social Psychology

Which of the following statements is the MOST true, according to the social psychological concepts we have learned?

Which of the following is an example of automatic thinking?

_____ refers to the idea that, when we are unsure of our own attitudes, we look at our own behavior for clues.

____ refers to the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared and passed on by a large group of people.

When are people the MOST likely to be overconfident in their intuition?

People often correlate 2 unrelated events in our thinking. This is _____.

Genetically, which of these two species has more "tribes?"

When we talk about our own histories, we:

_____ refers to the tension that arises when one is simultaneously aware of two inconsistent cognitions.

Evolutionary psychologists say that the behavioral trait held most in common by all humans is:

What is a universal cultural prohibition?

When people have to play a role, (Zimbardo’s experiment), they are able to remember their true values & act on them.

A person changes their mind, say about marriage equality, but they will always remember that they used to oppose it.

When relying on their intuition about something, most people tend to be ________in their thinking.

If you want to reduce your tendency toward over-confidence in a decision, what should you do?

________ refer to how our beliefs lead us to act in ways that produce their apparent confirmation.

Something comes readily to mind, so we judge it to be commonplace. This is ____.

If a marriage sours, will the people remember the happy times in a positive way?

Memories are:

Our perceptions control our interpretations. How do we interpret media and referees?

People worry about remote possibilities and ignore higher probabilities. This is _____.

Why do people fail to learn from their experiences of being wrong?

Remembering only the good parts of the good times (forgetting the mosquitoes while camping) is: