Social Psychology Quiz 3

According to this chapter, which is the best analogy to describe people's thinking abilities?

• People are cognitive misers.

• People are motivated tacticians.

• People are skilled detectives.

• People are flawed scientists.

Enrolling in which of the following graduate programs would be most likely to improve your statistical reasoning ability about problems in everyday life?

• Psychology

• Medicine

• Law

• Chemistry

Which one of the following involves the least amount of automatic thinking?

• acting according to goals that have been primed

• using metaphors about the body to make judgments

• counterfactual reasoning

• self-fulfilling prophecies

Which of the following is true about the use of schemas?

 

• Schemas are an example of controlled thinking.

• When people have an incorrect schema, rarely do they act in a way to make it come true.

• Although schemas can lead to errors, they are a very useful way of organizing information about the

  world and filling in gaps in our knowledge.

• The schema we use is influenced only by what information is chronically accessible and not by our

  goals or by what has been primed recently.

Tiffany has a hard time trusting her friends because she believes they are irresponsible. Accordingly, when she makes dinner plans with one friend, she also makes backup plans with someone else, and she goes to one or the other. Her friends soon in turn begin to “blow off” (skip) their arrangements with Tiffany, because they are never sure whether she will show up (come). Tiffany thinks to herself, “See, I was right, my friends are irresponsible.” Which of the following best explains why Tiffany made this conclusion?

• Accurate social perception due to controlled processes

• A self-fulfilling prophecy

• Holistic thinking

• Accurate social perception due to automatic processes