Social Cognition & Attribution

A cognitive miser is anyone who seeks out quick, adequate solutions to problems rather than slow, careful ones

• True

• False

Name for any mental process involved with knowing, awareness, perception, remembering, reasoning, judgment, or problem-solving.

• Cognition

• Attribution

• Theory of Cognitive Miserness

• Disposition

A distortion of thinking involving a tendency for people to perceive information through a filter of personal experience or preferences

• Cognition

• Attribution Error

• Cognitive Bias

• Social Cognition

The ways that our thinking, feeling, or beliefs that are constructed within a social context by the actual or imagined interactions with others

• Cognitive Miser

• Social Cognition

• Attribution

• Cognitive Bias

Which of the following is NOT an assumption of Social Cognition?

• Self-esteem guides human behavior

• People to seek causes of human behavior

• People constantly want change

• People are cognitive misers

The process by which individuals explain the causes of behavior and events

• Disposition

• Self Serving Bias

• Cognitive miser

• Attribution

Any error made when attempting to explain a cause of a behavior or event

• Attribution Bias

• Cognition

• Self-Serving Bias

• None of the answers listed here is correct

A situational attribution is when an assumed cause of a behavior...

• is thought to come from within a person

• is thought to come from outside a person

• is thought to be biased

• is thought to impact self esteem

The tendency to explain our own successes to dispositional causes and our failures to situational causes - in order to protect our self-esteem.

• Social Cognition

• Situational Attribution

• Self-serving Bias

• Cognitive Selfishness

When the assumed cause of someone else's behavior is thought to be "internally" caused

• Dispositional Attribution

• Situational Attribution

• Self-serving Attribution

• Attribution