Social Cognition Class ResultsPercentage of participants who got it incorrect or didn’t answer Participants = 241. Some months have 31 days, and some months have 30 days. How many months have 28 days? Answer: all of them-12 71% answered wrong 24 answered 2. Are lesbians at higher risk of contracting HIV then heterosexuals? Answer: less risk-don’t do high risk behaviors often 21% answered wrong 19 answered 3. Do they have the fourth of July in England? Answer: yes, don’t celebrate it46% answered wrong 24 answered 4. How many of each kind of animals did Moses take on the ark? Answer: 0 – Moses didn’t, it was Noah 75% answered wrong 24 answered 5. If a plane crashes on the border of Mexico and the United States, where will the survivors be buried? Answer: Aren’t buried- they are still alive92% answered wrong 24 answered 6. If a rooster lays an egg on the peak of a roof, which direction (right or left) will the egg roll? Answer: Roosters don’t lay eggs74% answered wrong 23 answered 7. Which side of the chicken has the most feathers? Answer: outside86% answered wrong 22 answered 8. In baseball, how many outs are in an inning? Answer: 6: 3 for each team67% answered wrong 24 answered 9. Can a California man legally marry his widow's sister? Answer: No- Widow means the California man is dead and corpses can’t marry in California92% answered wrong 24 answered 10. A clerk in the butcher shop is 5'10" tall. What does he weigh? Answer: Meat70% answered wrong 23 answered 11. How many birthdays does the average man have? Answer: Everyone is born once, and therefore has only one birthday 67% answered wrong 18 answered12. If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many apples do you have? Answer: You have two, the two you took away. 82% answered wrong 18 answered13. Why can't a man living in Winchester be buried in Frederick County? Answer: He is still alive83% answered wrong 12 answered 14. How near is the U.S. to Russia? (3000, 1000, 500, or 50 miles)? Answer: 50 miles- Think Alaska86% answered wrong 14 answered 15. Which is further west, Reno or Los Angeles? Didn’t get to this question before time calledAnswer: Reno, Nevada-look at US map83% answered wrong 12 answered 16. A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many did he have left? Answer: 9 didn’t die85% answered wrong 13 answered 17. What four words appear on every U.S. coin besides "In God We Trust?" Answer: United States of America 86% answered wrong 7 answered18. How many cubic feet of dirt are in a hole 1 foot deep, 3 feet long, and 2 feet wide? Answer: no dirt in a hole100% answered wrong 10 answered 19. Cincinnati is a long word. Can you spell it with one "i"? Answer: yes-“it”100% answered wrong 10 answered 20. If you had a match and entered a room in which there was a kerosene lamp, an oil heater, and a wood burning stove, which item would you light first? Answer: match 78% answered wrong 9 answered SOCIAL COGNITION ASSIGNMENT (Worth up to 15 points)1. Read chapter on Social Cognition – decide what kind of errors are causing people to get the questions wrong (use specific errors from the book, not just the lecture or opinion)2. Pick 3 questions that deal with a part of social cognition that is interesting to you. Describe why you picked them, and what phenomena from social cognition the questions illustrate.3. Have 5 friends or cooperative acquaintances answer your 3 chosen questions without prompting. Vary the way you ask the questions (ask people in a hurry, or sleepy people, etc). 4. What were your results? What kind of things made people more likely to answer wrong or right? Were certain people better at it then others? For example, baseball players probably answer #8 right, and Geography minors probably answer #14 and #15 correctly.5. When do errors like this matter (e.g. types of everyday experiences where this can make a difference)? Be specific. 6. What did you learn about the way people think by doing this? Bring in information from the chapter on social