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14 Cards in this Set
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Automatic thinking
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Thinking that is nonconscious, unintentional, involuntary and effortless
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Schemas
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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
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Accessibility
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The extent to which schemas and concepts are at the forefornt of people's minds and are therefore likely to be used when we are making judgments about the social world
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Priming
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The process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility of a schema, trait or concept
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Perseverance effect
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The finding that people's beliefs about themselves and the social world persist even after the evidence supporting these beliefs is discredited
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
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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
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Judgmental heuristics
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Mental shortcuts people use to make judgments quickly and efficiently
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Availability heuristic
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A mental rule of thumb whereby people base a judgment on the ease with which they can bring something to mind
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Representativeness heuristic
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A mental shortcut whereby people classify something according to how similar it is to a typical case
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Base rate information
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Information about the frequency of members of different categories in the population
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Controlled thinking
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Thinking that is conscious, intentional, voluntary, and effortful
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Counterfactual thinking
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Mentally changing some aspect of the past as a way of imagining what might have been
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Thought suppression
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The attempt to avoid thinking about something we would prefer to forget
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Overconfidence barrier
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The fact that people usually have too much confidence in the accuracy of their judgments
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