Define and give/recognize example of the “hindsight bias.”

Define and give/recognize example of “mood-congruent memory.” How is this implicated in depression?

Define and give/recognize example of “false memories” and the “misinformation effect.”

Discuss some of the social psychological aspects of eye-witness testimony. How do false memories play a role? Do innocent people confess to crimes that they didn’t do? Why or why not?

Define and give/recognize example of the “availability heuristic.”

What does “attribution theory” mean?

Define and give/recognize example of “internal/dispositional attribution” and “external/situational attribution.”

Define and give/recognize example of “the fundamental attribution error” and “the actor-observer effect.”

What are three reasons that we tend to make these attribution errors?

What is “just world thinking”? How does it relate to attributions?

Discuss “magical thinking.” How is it related to attribution theory? How is it related to superstition? When is it most likely to occur?

Discuss the process of impression formation. How do we use “bottom up” thinking to form impressions? What is the negativity bias? Why are we prone to that?

How do we use “top down” thinking to form impressions?

Define and give/recognize example of “transference.”

Define and give/recognize example of “false consensus.” Why does it occur?

What are “implicit personality theories”? Be able to give/recognize an example.

What is the representativeness heuristic? Be able to provide and recognize examples. Your book refers to “stereotyping.” How is this related to representativeness?

Define and give/recognize example of the “primacy effect.” Explain Asch’s study of impression formation. Can we change our first impression of a person? How/when?

What is “counterfactual thinking”? What affects the strength of a reaction to a counterfactual? How can counterfactuals boost or depress our moods? (i.e., what are upward and downward comparisons?)