1 .		The study of how people form inferences from the social information in the environment is __________. [Hint]
2 .		Which of the following is NOT a step in the process of social inference?
3 .		Which of the following types of information seems to have the most influence on people’s judgments?
4 .		The phrase "blondes have more fun," would be described as an example of a (an):
5 .		The effect of remembering information whose valence fits current mood states is called:
6 .		Ziva Kunda suggests that people generate and evaluate causal theories of social inference in a (an):
7 .		When people are accustomed to a particular work environment, the can operate in that environment with little thought or effort. When placed within a new context, however, they seem to have lost their schema for everyday events, such as where to get the coffee and when to go to lunch. In this new environment, these individuals could be described as lacking:
8 .		In which of the following ways do schemas help a person process information?
9 .		Which of the following statements is false?
10 .		The feelings that arise when a particular schema is activated are referred to as:
11 .		Which of the following is not a liability of schemas?
12 .		Mental shortcuts that help people invoke their schemas to process information in their environment are known as:
13 .		The _____________ heuristic helps one decide if a particular person or event is an example of a particular schema.
14 .		Using the ease of remembering examples or the amount of information you can quickly remember as a guide to making an inference is called the ____________ heuristic.
15 .		On his way home from work, Mark takes a shortcut he has never tried before. Unfortunately, Mark has an accident on this new route. His ability to easily generate the alternative outcome of "If only I had taken my usual route home, this would not have happened," illustrates:
16 .		A common anchor or reference point used in social perception is the:
17 .		The most powerful determinant of which schema will be used by people to interpret information is:
18 .		The tendency for a schema that has been recently used to be used again to interpret new information is the:
19 .		Which of the following can cause a person to abandon his or her schemas and pay more attention to the data at hand?
20 .		Behaving towards others in ways that confirm the beliefs we hold about those other is called:
21 .		Social is the study of how people form inferences from social information in the environment.
22 .		People are sometimes unaware that a sample of information actually produces a very biased picture.
23 .		information is generally preferred over case history information.
24 .		When a small relationship between two variables is expected, a person is likely to succumb to the phenomenon of correlation (overestimating the degree of the relationship or imposing one if none exists.)
25 .		is when two items are thought to go together because they share some unusual feature.
26 .		Schemas about extremely common events are called .
27 .		Basically, the heuristic matches information in the environment against schemas to determine the likelihood that the match is appropriate.
28 .		The refers to the fact that people consistently overestimate how quickly and easily they will achieve a goal, and underestimate the amount of time, money, or effort that will be required to reach that goal.
29 .		In social judgment tasks, the seems to be a common anchor.
30 .		The tendency for recently used schemas to be employed in unrelated subsequent situations is called the effect.
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