Shantel has a very specific goal to marry a man with inherited wealth. As a consequence, whenever she meets new prospective mates, she consciously judges them based on the presence or absence of what she considers to be external indicators of wealth, including expensive clothing and accessories and straight, sparklingly white teeth. In this example, Shantel is using _____ to categorize her prospective mates.

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Shantel is consciously judging her prospective mates based on external indicators of wealth, which suggests that she is using explicit cognition, or deliberate and conscious thinking, to categorize them. Implicit cognition, on the other hand, refers to unconscious processes that influence our thoughts and behaviors. Hindsight bias refers to the tendency to view events as more predictable than they actually were after learning the outcome, and normative social influence refers to the pressure to conform to the expectations of a group. Neither of these concepts applies to Shantel's behavior in this scenario.

Shantel Has a Very Specific Goal to Marry a Man