Forming Impressions

Question 1

Covariation Theory

Answer 1

Predicts how you determine if a given behavior is due to an individual’s personal disposition or the situation and circumstances

Question 2

What variables are considered in covariation theory

Answer 2

Consensus, distinctiveness, consistency

Question 3

Consensus

Answer 3

Considers how others behave in the given situation

Question 4

Distinctiveness

Answer 4

Considers how a given person behaves in other situations

Question 5

Consistnecy

Answer 5

considers how this person behaves in this situation at other times

Question 6

What variables lead to the conclusion of situational attribution

Answer 6

High consensus, high distinctiveness and high consistency

Question 7

What variables lead to the conclusion of dispositional attribution

Answer 7

Low consensus, low distinctiveness, high consistency

Question 8

What variables lead to the conclusion of wider situational attribution

Answer 8

low or high consensus and distinctiveness but low consistency

Question 9

Correspondent Inference Theory

Answer 9

focuses solely on the internal factors influencing a person’s behavior to understand what motivates those personal behaviors

Question 10

What variables are associated with correspondent inference theory

Answer 10

degree of choice, expectation, intended consequence

Question 11

Degree of choice

Answer 11

describes the amount of freedom an actor had in choosing their opinion or behavior

Question 12

Expectation

Answer 12

The degree to which an individuals behavior in a particular social role matches our expectations for that role

Question 13

Intended Consequence

Answer 13

Describe as the goals and motivations of an actor that shape their behavior

Question 14

Fundamental Attribution Error

Answer 14

A tendency to over-value dispositional factors while under-valuing situational factors

Question 15

Actor/observer effect

Answer 15

You as an actor are better aware of the situational factors but as an observer assume actions represent dispositional factors

Question 16

Self-serving bias

Answer 16

causes you to identify dispositional causes for your successes but situational causes for your failures

Question 17

Above average effect

Answer 17

The illusion that you are above average at things that are important to you because of self-serving bias

Question 18

Representative Heuristic

Answer 18

You classify people by considering how well their behavior fits with a certain prototype

Question 19

Availability Heuristic

Answer 19

Classify people considering information that quickly and easily comes to mind

Question 20

Factors effecting who you consider attractive

Answer 20

Proximity, familiarity, physical attractiveness and others’ opinions of us

Question 21

Proximity

Answer 21

Considers functional and physical distance, more likely to become friends with those of greater proximity

Question 22

Familiarity

Answer 22

Explains why you tend to rate faces of people you have seen before as being more attractive

Question 23

Mere exposure effect

Answer 23

describes the tendency to feel more positive towards things that are familiar, even if only seen once or twice in the past

Question 24

Physical attractiveness

Answer 24

On the presumption that what is beautiful is good

Question 25

Halo effect

Answer 25

the tendency for people to attribute more positive characteristics to those that they already have positive impressions of

Question 26

Others’ opinions of us

Answer 26

largely influenced by gains and loses

Question 27

False consensus effect

Answer 27

We tend to believe more people chare our views than they actually do

Question 28

Illusory correlation

Answer 28

When individuals believe that two variables are related even though there is no evidence for the relationship