Review Session – Section 004 and 013

Agenda:

Themes

Methods

Schemas versus Heuristics

Nonverbal communication

Non-common effects

Accessibility

Attribution

Automatic versus Controlled Thinking

Coursepack Articles

THEMES

Construals

Gestalt Psychology

METHODS

Observational Studies

Correlational Methods

Correlation Coefficient

Experimental Methods

Internal Validity

Control

Random Assignment

External Validity

Mundane realism

Psychological realism

P-Values

SCHEMAS VERSUS HEURISTICS

Schemas

Heuristics

Things related to schemas and heuristics

Primacy effect

Perseverance Effect

Independent v. Dependent self-schemas

Types of heuristics

Availability

Counterfactual Thinking

Representativeness

Anchoring and Adjustment

NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION

Culture

Gender

NONCOMMON EFFECTS

What are they?

Relates to Correspondent Inference Theory

Example

ACCESSIBILITY

Temporary versus Chronic

ATTRIBUTION

Covariation Model

Why would external attribution be high in consistency?

Example

FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR

Definition

FAE vs. Actor-Observer Bias

AUTOMATIC VS. CONTROLLED THINKING

Why is it that the more motivated people are to form unbiased judgments, the more likely they are to do exactly that?

COURSEPACK ARTICLES

Hastorff and Cantril

Main Point:

Bargh et al

Main Point:

Lau and Russell

Main Point: