- Define social cognition.
- Give examples of how prior expectations, biases in the information selected, and goals, desires, and moods can distort social inferences.
- Discuss why people are prone to errors and biases in social inference.
- Define schemas and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of schematic processing.
- Define heuristics and describe how the heuristic strategies of representativeness, availability, simulation, and anchoring and adjustment are used for making judgments.
- Define “self-fulfilling prophecy” and its importance
- Explain what factors determine which schemas are selected for processing information.
