Intro to Self Final Exam

Schema

Mental model, or representation, of any of the various things we come across in our daily lives

Self-Schema

Schemas about how we expect ourselves to act

Event Schemas/Scripts

How we expect recurring events to play out

Person Schemas

How we expect other people to act

Heuristics

Mental shortcuts that reduce complex problem-solving to more simple, rule-based decisions

Representativeness Heuristic

Judging the likelihood of something based on someone’s mental representation of that category

Availability Heuristic

Evaluating the frequency of an event based on how easily instances of it come to mind

Affective Forecasting

The overall process of predicting how you’ll feel in the future

Impact Bias

Tendency for a person to overestimate the intensity of future feelings

Durability Bias

Tendency for people to overestimate how long positive or negative events will affect them

Priming

Exposure to one stimulus influences a person’s response to a subsequent, related stimulus, often without conscious awareness

Mood-Congruent Memory

Tendency to be better able to recall memories that have a mood similar to our current mood

Chameleon Effect

Tendency for individuals to unconsciously mimic the postures, mannerisms, facial expressions, and other behaviors of one’s interaction partners