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The tendency for people to attribute their own behavior to external causes, but that of others to internal factors is the _____.

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actor-observer effect.

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What tendency allows teachers to be mistaken for students when they look youthful and wear casual clothes?

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Representativeness heuristic

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A cluster of socially defined expectations that individuals in a given situation are expected to fulfill is known as a _____.

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social role

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The tendency to seek information that supports our beliefs while ignoring contradictory information is _____.

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confirmation bias

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Humans interpret people’s common attributes and create categories using the process of _____.

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social categorization

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People who adopt the behaviors, postures, or mannerisms of interaction partners, and are not aware that they are doing so, are demonstrating _____.

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nonconscious mimicry

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People who attribute negative events in their lives to internal, stable causes that extend to many spheres in their lives are said to have _____ explanatory style.

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a pessimistic

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An organized structure of knowledge about a stimulus that is built from experience and contains causal relations is a _____.

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schema

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The process by which recent exposure to certain stimuli or events increases the accessibility of certain memories, categories, or schemas is called _____.

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priming

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If personal warmth is valued more than competence in a culture, warmth is a _____.

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central trait

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Personality traits and attitudes can be considered _____.

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internal attributions

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Mental shortcuts that reduce complex judgments to simple rules are _____.

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heuristics

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Attributing negative events to an external, unstable, and specific cause is what kind of attribution process?

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Optimistic explanatory style

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The tendency to be biased toward a value one has been given when making a quantitative judgment is the _____ heuristic.

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anchoring and adjustment

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Barbie dolls, romantic comedies, and shopping are viewed as girl-like when viewed through _____.

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gender schemas

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When your favorite athletic team wins the conference championship, and your friend states, “I saw that coming all season long,” your friend is giving an example of _____.

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hindsight bias

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The error that occurs when personal descriptors are used to make judgments, as opposed to judging based on the frequency with which some event or pattern occurs in the general population is the _____.

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base-rate fallacy

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A high school student who got into a fight with his older brother in the morning did not attend a family event in the afternoon. When his family found out about the fight they understood why he had skipped the event. The family’s behavior exemplifies _____.

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`external attribution

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The most representative member of a category is known as a _____.

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`prototype

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Imagining different outcomes after an event is _____.

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counterfactual thinking

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The ways in which we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about our social world

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social cognition

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The process of forming categories of people based on their common attributes

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social categorization

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The most representative member of a category

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prototype

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The most representative member of a category is called a prototype. (t/f)

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true

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An organized structure of knowledge about a stimulus that is built up from experience and that contains causal relations; a theory about how the social world operates

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schema

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A cognitive structure for processing information based on perceived female or male qualities

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gender schema

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A schema that describes how a series of events is likely to occur in a well-known situation and which is used as a guide for behavior and problem-solving

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script

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Once a schema is created, it is set in stone and does not change. (T/F)

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FALSE. When new information is sharply inconsistent with an existing schema a new, separate schema can be created. But existing schemas can also be updated.

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The process by which recent exposure to certain stimuli or events increases the accessibility of certain memories, categories, or schemas

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priming

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Schemas are both situationally activated and chronically accessible. (T/F)

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TRUE

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Time-saving mental shortcuts that reduce complex judgments to simple rules

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heuristics

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The tendency to judge the category membership of things based on how closely they match the “typical” or “average” member of that category

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representativeness heuristic

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The tendency to judge the frequency or probability of an event in terms of how easy it is to think of examples of that event

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availability heuristic

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A tendency to be biased toward the starting value or anchor in making quantitative judgments

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anchoring and adjustment heuristic

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Heuristics require reasonable accuracy. (T/F)

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TRUE

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We are more likely to use heuristics if we are overloaded with information. (t/f)

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true

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The tendency, once an event has occurred, to overestimate our ability to have foreseen the outcome

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hindsight bias

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Through the hindsight bias we can reduce disappointment and protect our self-esteem. (T/F)

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TRUE

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The tendency to evaluate events by imagining alternative versions or outcomes to what actually happened

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counterfactual thinking

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Counterfactual thinking can help us feel better after a negative outcome. (T/F)

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true

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The process by which we try to detect other people’s temporary states and enduring dispositions (also called social perception)

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person perception

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Communicating feelings and intentions without words

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nonverbal communication

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The tendency to adopt the behaviors, postures, or mannerisms of interaction partners without conscious awareness or intention

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nonconscious mimicry

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A cluster of socially defined expectations that individuals in a given situation are expected to fulfill

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social role

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People who are high in narcissism engage in nonconscious behavioral mimicry with people regardless of social status. (T/F)

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FALSE. People who are high in narcissism engage in nonconscious behavioral mimicry when interacting with a higher social status person, but not when interacting with someone of lower social status

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The theory that virtually all of the documented behavioral differences between males and females can be accounted for in terms of cultural stereotypes about gender and the resulting social roles that are taught to the young

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social role theory

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For women, the most acceptable emotional style to publicly display is extravagant expressiveness. (T/F)

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TRUE

46
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When someone lies, they do not look us in the eyes. (T/F)

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FALSE. Experienced deceivers engage in deliberate eye contact to convince us they are being truthful.

47
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Traits that exert a disproportionate influence on people’s overall impressions, causing them to assume the presence of other traits

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central traits

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A type of schema people use to organize and make sense of which personality traits and behaviors go together

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implicit personality theories

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Both high school students and first-year college students who initially held a fixed mindset showed improved academic performance after they participated in brief interventions informing them that intelligence is not fixed, but rather, is malleable. (T/F)

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TRUE

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The tendency to seek information that supports our beliefs while ignoring disconfirming information

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confirmation bias

51
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Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek all information available in order to reach a valid conclusion. (T/F)

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FALSE. Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek information that supports our beliefs while ignoring disconfirming information.

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The process by which people use information to make inferences about the causes of behavior or events

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attribution

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An attribution that locates the cause of an event in factors internal to the person, such as personality traits, moods, attitudes, abilities, or effort

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internal attribution

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An attribution that locates the cause of an event in factors external to the person, such as luck, other people, or the situation

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external attribution

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She insulted me because she is rude- WHAT IS THE CAUSALITY?

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both internal and stable– dispositional

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She insulted me because she has a cold

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internal but unstable

57
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She insulted me because I, the external factor, rub people the wrong way

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external and stable

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She insulted me because the weather conditions that day made her job very difficult

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external and unstable

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My roommate insulting me because she has a headache is an example of an internal and stable cause. (t/f)

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false. This is an internal and UNSTABLE cause. don’t always have a headache

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An attribution theory that describes how we make judgments about people’s actions by observing them over time (consistency information), across situations (distinctiveness information), and in comparison to others’ actions (consensus information)

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covariation model

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internal attribution

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low consensus and distinctiveness and high consistency ie STUDENT IS LAZY this is to address the question why is this student sleeping in my class?

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entity attribution

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high consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency i.e. I’m a boring professor
this is to address the question why is this student sleeping in my class?

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circumstance attribution

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consensus and consistency are low but distinctiveness is high i.e. student didn’t get enough sleep last night
this is to address the question why is this student sleeping in my class?

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When all three kinds of information are high, people are likely to make entity attributions. (T/F)

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True. I the professor am the problem

65
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When I talk on shabbat Orlee get snappy and will tell me what I am saying is wrong? What is happening? use the 3 different attributions to explain. SECOND ONE ONLY

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2) entity attribution- this means that I am the problem.. I (the entity) am annoying and that is why she is acting the way she is
- high consensus: everyone in the group is acting this way towards me
-high distinctiveness: she doesn’t do this to other people (distinct to me)
-high consistency: she does this to me often

ALL ARE HIGH

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When I talk on shabbat Orlee get snappy and will tell me what I am saying is wrong? What is happening? use the 3 different attributions to explain. FIRST ONE ONLY

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1) internal attribution- this means that she is MEAN (to me? ).
-low consensus: no one else in the group is acting like this
-low distinctiveness: she does this when anyone talks
-high consistency: she has done this other days to me (not the only time)

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When I talk on shabbat Orlee get snappy and will tell me what I am saying is wrong? What is happening? use the 3 different attributions to explain. THIRD ONE ONLY

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3) circumstance attribution- This means that there was a specific incident that happened to her that is causing this behavior (outside from me)
-low consensus :no one else is acting like this
-high distinctiveness: she doesn’t do this to other people
-low consistency: she DOES NOT ALWAYS DO THIS TO ME

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When all three kinds of information are high, people are likely to make entity attributions. (t/f)

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TRUE

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The tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional causes and underestimate the impact of situational causes on other people’s behavior

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fundamental attribution error

-our desire for predictability may make us more susceptible to the fundamental attribution error

70
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The tendency for people to attribute their own behavior to external causes but that of others to internal factors

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actor-observer effect

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Attributing the behavior of others to internal factors allows social perceivers to block actors’ attempts to deny responsibility for negative events with which they are associated. (t/f)

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true

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Theories of attribution that propose that people initially engage in a relatively automatic and simple attributional assessment but then later consciously correct this attribution with more deliberate and effortful thinking

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dual-process models of attribution

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In collectivist cultures, when we don’t engage in deliberate attributional inference, our explanations of other people’s actions are likely to fall prey to the fundamental attribution error. (T/F)

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false. This describes individualist cultures.

74
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A habitual tendency to attribute negative events to internal, stable, and global causes, and positive events to external, unstable, and specific causes

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pessimistic explanatory style

75
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A habitual tendency to attribute negative events to external, unstable, and ­specific causes, and positive events to internal, stable, and global causes

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optimistic explanatory style

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