Discuss the roles that expectations can play in social cognitive processing. Be sure to discuss this in the context of both conserving mental effort and accuracy motivation
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Students should discuss: the role that expectations can play as shortcuts to help conserve resources; unexpected events and their triggering of accuracy motivation; searching for disconfirming versus confirming evidence. Students may also discuss self-fulfilling prophecies.
Psychology
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