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Information overload Instances in which our ability to process information is exceeded Conditions of uncertainty Where the "correct" answer is difficult to know or would take a great deal of effort to determine Heuristics simple rules fr making complex decisions or drawing inferences in a rapid nd seemingly effortless manner Prototype A list of attributes possessed by members of category Representative heuristics A strategy for making judgements based on the extent to which curren...

research (Simon, 2004) has noted that linguistic cues can activate certain types of self-concepts. When other people describe us, nouns tend to activate ________ identities while adjectives and verbs tend to activate ________ identities. social; personal As one of a number of ________, people are quite willing to avoid responsibility for their failures but all too willing to accept credit for their successes. self serving bias When people describe themselves as they were five years ago and a...

Attitude feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events. evaluations of various aspects of the social world. Explicit attitude an attitude that a person is consciously aware of and can report. Implicit attitude an attitude that influences a person's feelings and behaviour at an unconscious level. they are unconscious associations between objects and evaluative responses. Evaluative response a judgement by a li...

behavioral intentions In the theory of planned behavior, once our behavioral options are considered, their consequences are evaluated, and a decision is reached to act or not, that decision then manifests itself in ________. gains to be had rather than losses to be suffered In a study, people who were at risk for serious illness, but did not see themselves as such (compared to those who accurately saw themselves as at risk) were persuaded to be tested because the persuasive message was framed...

lasting internal causes; temporary external causes People who suffer from depression tend to attribute their failures to ________ and their successes to changing the way that depressed people make attributions about success and failure One therapy that is based on changing attributions of depressed people involves ________. The professor and students implicitly believe that only someone who really hold a particular opinion can persuasively write or speak about it Jeremy has always been a ve...