Massey- Test 2

Question 1

Cognitive categorization of boundaries

Answer 1

Human psyche categorizes everything using schemas

Question 2

Schemas

Answer 2

contain an element of emotion

Question 3

Daniel Kahneman

Answer 3

Brain has Neocotex (rational) and limbic systems (emotional)

Question 4

Implicit bias

Answer 4

refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner.

Question 5

Fundamental attribution error

Answer 5

“the general tendency to overestimate the importance of personal or disproportion factors related to environmental influences” in account for behavior
Actor-observer effect- we “attribute personal misfortunes to specific features of the situation”
(p. 387)

Question 6

Actor-observer effect

Answer 6

When people judge their own behavior, and they are the actor, they are more likely to attribute their actions to the particular situation than to a generalization about their personality. Yet when an observer is explaining the behavior of another person (the actor), they are more likely to attribute this behavior to the actors’ overall disposition rather than to situational factors.