Quiz 3

Question 1

________ attribution is to person to as ________ attribution is to situation.

Answer 1

Internal; external

Question 2

________ theory provides a description of how people explain the causes of their own and others’ behaviors.

Answer 2

Attribution

Question 3

Amber and Jack are very physically attractive. In the U.S. most people would think they are also

Answer 3

kind and intelligent

Question 4

An implicit personality theory is a(n)

Answer 4

schema about which traits tend to co-occur in people.

Question 5

Based on a study by Lassiter and his colleagues (2007) examining how judges and police officers viewed tapes of interrogations, if you were going to be interrogated by a detective, you would not want the camera pointed at

Answer 5

you only.

Question 6

Judy forms a circle with her thumb and forefinger to communicate to her sister that everything is okay. Although in America this is a common gesture, it may be interpreted differently elsewhere in the world. What kind of gesture is this?

Answer 6

emblem

Question 7

________ are culture-specific norms that dictate what kinds of emotional expression is allowed

Answer 7

Display rules

Question 8

According to research presented in this chapter, there are two steps involved in the attribution process. The point at which attributional errors tend to occur is when we attempt to

Answer 8

adjust for situational factors.

Question 9

Because the knowledge that we are mortal and that bad things can happen to us is very difficult to accept, we often make ________ attributions

Answer 9

defensive

Question 10

Don is running late for work, and arrives ten minutes late. Which of the following represents an internal attribution that his supervisor would make?

Answer 10

You probably overslept again because you’re so lazy.