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Social Cognition: How We Think About the Social World
1. What is social cognition? How do automatic thinking and controlled thinking differ? When and why are automatic thinking and controlled thinking used? What are advantages and disadvantages of each?
2. How are schemas and priming a part of automatic thinking? What are advantages and disadvantages of using schemas? What determines which schemas are used?
3. Why are judgmental heuristics used? When do we use the availability heuristic, the representative heuristic, and base rate information? How can each of these influence our judgments and decisions?
4. What is counterfactual thinking? How can it influence our emotional reactions?
5. How can metaphors about the body and the mind influence judgments and decisions?
6. What is the self-fulfilling prophecy?
7. How does culture influence social thinking?
Social Perception: How We Come to Understand Other People
1. What is social perception? How do people use nonverbal cues to understand others? What makes affect blends difficult to decode?
2. How do display rules influence nonverbal behavior?
3. Why do first impressions persist?
4. According to the covariation model, what information influences whether people make internal and external attributions for others' behaviors?
5. What is the two-step attribution process?
6. Why do people make self-serving attributions?
7. What is the bias blind spot?
8. How does culture influence thinking style?
Social Psychology in Action 3: Psychology and the Law (pp. 423-430 on Eyewitness Testimony)
1. Why are eyewitnesses often wrong?
2. What are research-based recommendations for how police lineups should be conducted?