Social Cognition Specialty Vocabulary SUA

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Across
  1. 2. mental shortcuts people use to make judgments quickly and efficiently
  2. 7. N - mental structures people use to organize their knowledge about the social world around themes or subjects and that influence the information people notice, think about, and remember
  3. 9. the attempt to avoid thinking about something we would prefer to forget
  4. 10. information about the frequency of members of different categories in the population
  5. 12. thinking that is conscious, intentional, voluntary, and effortful
  6. 13. the process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility of a schema, trait, or concept
  7. 14. the psychological process whereby an individual’s deliberate attempts to suppress or avoid certain thoughts (thought suppression) actually cause those thoughts to be more persistent
  8. 15. N – the study of how people use their experience to find answers to questions or to improve their performance
  9. 16. how people think about themselves and the social world, or more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions
  10. 17. mentally changing some aspect of the past as a way of imagining what might have been
  11. 18. BARRIER the fact that people usually have too much confidence in the accuracy of their judgments
Down
  1. 1. the case whereby people have an expectation about what another person is like, which influences how they act toward that person, which causes that person to behave consistently with people’s original expectations, making the expectations come true
  2. 3. Basically when you try to suppress a particular thought, that very thought becomes more accessible than when you are not trying to suppress it.
  3. 4. a mental shortcut whereby people classify something according to how similar it is to a typical case
  4. 5. a type of thinking in which people focus on the overall context, particularly the ways in which objects relate to each other; this type of thinking is common in East Asian cultures (e.g., China, Japan and Korea)
  5. 6. a mental rule of thumb whereby people base a judgment on the ease with which they can bring something to mind
  6. 8. Thinking that is nonconscious, unintentional, involuntary, and effortless
  7. 11. STYLE a type of thinking in which people focus on the properties of objects without considering their surrounding context; this type of thinking is common in Western cultures