Week 2 Discussion (Social Cognition and Social Perception)

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BOOK

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Please answer
all of the following questions:
Read Chpter 3 and 4

1. Think of daily tasks you do that required careful, controlled thinking to learn but are now automatic. What are you learning now that you hope will become automatic soon?

2. In the company Orange, a computer software firm, there are twenty office staff (administrators, administrative assistants, and salespeople) and eighty programmers/analysts.

Melissa Jones works for the company Orange. She is a tall, attractive woman, age twenty-eight, and has worked at Orange for five years. She knows how to touch-type, communicates well with people, and loves her job at Orange. Her hobbies are crossword puzzles, painting, and dancing.

What is the likelihood that Melissa Jones is a programmer/analyst? Give your estimate in a form of a percent (for example 50%).

3. For each of the heuristics discussed in this unit—
availability, representativeness, and anchoring—think of examples that illustrate how you or others have used the heuristic to make a decision or solve a problem (one example for each heuristic).

In which of these cases has relying on the heuristic been helpful?

In which of the cases have people been misled by relying on the heuristic?

4. Read the article by clicking

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Links to an external site.

. Then, answer the following questions about the article:

· Did you know about some of the uses of emblems used in the US in other cultures?

· What was the most surprising?

5. Find an emblem that is used in other countries but is not used in the US. (Similar to a fig sign, but don’t use that one as it was already talked about in the lecture).