1. Define social cognition.
2. Give examples of how prior expectations, biases in the information selected, and goals, desires, and moods can distort social inferences.
3. Discuss why people are prone to errors and biases in social inference.
4. Define schemas, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of schematic processing.
5. Define heuristics, and describe the representativeness, availability, simulation, and anchoring and adjustment heuristics.
6. Explain what factors determine which schemas are selected for processing information.
7. Explain how schemas can influence behavior in social interactions.

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