Social Psychology Chapter 3

Social psych chapter 3 courtesy of myers

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Priming
Activating particular associations in memory
Belief perseverance
Persistance of one's initial conceptions, as when the basis for one's belief is discredited but an explanation of why the belief might be true lives
Misinformation effect
Incorporating "misinformation" into one's memory of the event, after witnessing an event and receiving misleading information about it
Controlled processing
"explicit" thinking that is deliberate, reflective, and conscious
Automatic processing
"implicit" thinking taht is effortless, habitual, and without awareness, roughtly corresponds to "intuition".
Overconfidence
The tendency to be more confident that correct-to overestimate the accuracy of one's beliefs
Confirmation bias
A tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions
Heuristic
A thinking strategy that enables quick, efficient judgments
Representativeness heuristic
The tendency to presume, sometimes despite contrary odds, that someone or something belongs to a particular group if resembling a type of member.
Availability heuristic
A cognitive rule that judges the likelihood of things in terms of their availability in memory.
Counterfactual thinking
Imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that might ahve happened, but didnt.
Illusory correlation
Perception of a relationship where none exists, or perception of a stronger relationship that actually exists.
Illusion of control
Perception of uncontrollable events as subject to one's control or as more controllable that they are
Regression toward the average
The statistical tendency for extreme scores or extreme behavior to return toward one's average.
Misattribution
Mistakenly attributing a behavior to the wrong source.