Social Psychology Midterm

The tendecy to be more confident than correct, to over estimate the accuracy of ones beliefs.
ex, HIV+ woman picture , the video

We are eager to verify our beliefs, but less inclinded to disprove them.
ex. domineering self image

Processing information about a particular person in way that supports/confirms the schema: It allows us to:
- interpret behavior as consistent
-remeber behavior as cosistent
- biased hypothesis testing

Type of self-fulfilling prophecy, whereby peoples social expectations leads them to act in ways that confirms others expectations
ex. teacher expectancies

Somtimes you remember seeing someone at a party, and that person reminds you of someone, this could be a negative or postive reaction.

Type of thinking strategy that enables quick and efficient judgments

Mental templates, that helps us organize our worlds.
role of schemas:
- simplify and understand things
- guides infromation processing in a quick and efficient way -allows us to acitvely interpret and contruct our reality

Activating associations in memory

The tendency to persume (despite contrary odds) that someone or something belongs to particular group is they resemble (represent) a typical member.
ex. linda, feminsit movement

Cognitive rule that judges the likelihood of something in terms of its availability in memory
ex. iraq or tanzania

A persons answers to the question who am I?

A person overall self evaluation or sense of self worth

The particular aspects of the self that is assessed at the moment
ex. Mother, caring, and organized, hard working.

Whether ppl think of themselves as having many distinct qualities.

Giving priority to ones own goals over group goals & defining ones identity in terms of personal attributes, rather than group identification.
" The squeaky wheel, gets the grease"