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1The process of assigning cause to our own behaviour, and that of others.
1. AAttribution (p. 84)
2. BHedonic Relevance (p. 87)
3. CPersonalism (p. 87)
4. DConsistency Information (p. 87)
2Model of social cognition that characterises people as using rational, scientific-like, cause–effect analyses to understand their world.
1. AHeider’s Theory of Naive Psychology (p. 85)
2. BJones and Davis’ Theory of Correspondent Inference (p. 86)
3. CKelley’s Covariation Model (p. 87)
4. DConspiracy Theories (p. 108)
3Three Principles of Naïve Psychology (p. 85)
1. ALooking for behaviour causes to discover other people’s motives.
2. BFocus on stable and enduring properties.
3. CDistinguish between personal factors.
4. DBehaviour freely chosen.
4Explanation of behaviour due to internal reasoning such as personality.
1. ADispositional Attribution (p. 85)
2. BSituational Attribution (p. 85)
3. CHedonic Relevance (p. 87)
4. DPersonalism (p. 87)
5Explanation of behaviour due to external reasoning such as environment.
1. ADispositional Attribution (p. 85)
2. BSituational Attribution (p. 85)
3. CHedonic Relevance (p. 87)
4. DPersonalism (p. 87)
6A theory explaining how people infer that a person’s behaviour corresponds to an underlying disposition or personality trait.
1. AJones and Davis’ Theory of Correspondent Inference (p. 86)
2. BHeider’s Theory of Naive Psychology (p. 85)
3. CKelley’s Covariation Model (p. 87)
4. DConspiracy Theories (p. 108)
7Five Sources of Information or Cues to Make a Correspondent Inference.
1. ABehaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)
2. BNon-Common Effects (p. 86)
3. CBehaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
4. DHedonic Relevance (p. 87)
5. EPersonalism (p. 87)
6. FConsistency Information (p. 87)
8The act was freely chosen.
1. ABehaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)
2. BNon-Common Effects (p. 86)
3. CBehaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
4. DPersonalism (p. 87)
9Effects of behaviour that are relatively exclusive to that behaviour rather than other behaviours.
1. AHedonic Relevance (p. 87)
2. BNon-Common Effects (p. 86)
3. CBehaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
4. DPersonalism (p. 87)
10Behaviour likely to be controlled by societal norms.
1. APersonalism (p. 87)
2. BHedonic Relevance (p. 87)
3. CBehaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
4. DNon-Common Effects (p. 86)

11Refers to behaviour that has important direct consequences for self.
1. ABehaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)
2. BBehaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
3. CHedonic Relevance (p. 87)
4. DPersonalism (p. 87)
12Behaviour that appears to be directly intended to benefit or harm oneself rather than others.
1. ABehaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)
2. BBehaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
3. CHedonic Relevance (p. 87)
4. DPersonalism (p. 87)
13A theory of causal attribution whereby people assign the cause of behaviour to the factor that covaries most closely with the behaviour.
1. AHeider’s Theory of Naive Psychology (p. 85)
2. BJones and Davis’ Theory of Correspondent Inference (p. 86)
3. CKelley’s Covariation Model (p. 87)
4. DConspiracy Theory (p. 108)
14Three Classes of Information Associated with the Co-Occurrence of a Certain Action.
1. AConsistency Information (p. 87)
2. BDistinctiveness Information (p. 87)
3. CConsensus Information (p. 87)
4. DBehaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)
5. ELevelling (p. 107)
15Information about the extent to which a behaviour Y always co-occurs with a stimulus X.
1. AConsistency Information (p. 87)
2. BDistinctiveness Information (p. 87)
3. CConsensus Information (p. 87)
4. DCorrelation (p. 13)
16Information about whether a person’s reaction occurs only with one stimulus, or is a common reaction to many stimuli.
1. AConsistency Information (p. 87)
2. BDistinctiveness Information (p. 87)
3. CConsensus Information (p. 87)
4. DConfounding (p. 10)
17Information about the extent to which other people react in the same way to a stimulus X.
1. AConsistency Information (p. 87)
2. BDistinctiveness Information (p. 87)
3. CConsensus Information (p. 87)
4. DExternal Validity (p. 12)
18Experience-based beliefs about how certain types of cause interact to produce an effect.
1. ACausal Schemata (p. 89)
2. BThe Actor-Observer Effect (p. 97-98)
3. CIllusion of Control (p. 100)
4. DHedonic Relevance (p. 87)
19A tendency for people to over-attribute behaviour to stable underlying personality dispositions.
1. ACorrespondence Bias (or Fundamental Attribution Error) (p. 95)
2. BOutcome Bias (p. 86)
3. CUltimate Attribution Error (p. 102)
4. DPersonalism (p. 87)
20Belief that the outcomes of a behaviour were intended by the person who chose the behaviour.
1. ACorrespondence Bias (or Fundamental Attribution Error) (p. 95)
2. BOutcome Bias (p. 86)
3. CUltimate Attribution Error (p. 102)
4. DPersonalism (p. 87)
21Tendency to consider behaviour to reflect underlying and immutable, often innate, properties of people for the groups they belong to.
1. AEssentialism (p. 96)
2. BUltimate Attribution Error (p. 102)
3. CStereotype (p. 103)
4. DBehaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
22Tendency to attribute our own behaviours externally and others’ behaviours internally.
1. AThe Actor-Observer Effect (p. 97-98)
2. BCorrespondence Bias (or Fundamental Attribution Error) (p. 95)
3. CUltimate Attribution Error (p. 102)
4. DOutcome Bias (p. 86)
23A tendency to see your own behaviour as more typical than it really is.
1. AThe False Consensus Effect (p. 98-99)
2. BSelf-Serving Bias (p. 99)
3. CCausal Schemata (p. 89)
4. DConsistency Information (p. 87)
24Attributional distortions that protect or enhance self-esteem or the self-concept.
1. ASelf-Serving Biases (p. 99)
2. BCorrespondence Bias (or Fundamental Attribution Error) (p. 95)
3. CConsistency Information (p. 87)
4. DSharpening (p. 107)
25Select the all the types of self-serving bias.
1. ASelf-Handicapping (p. 100)
2. BIllusion of Control (p. 100)
3. CBelief in a Just World (p. 100-101)
4. DOutcome Bias (p. 86)
5. ESharpening (p. 107)
26Publicly making advance external attributions for our anticipated failure or poor performance in a forthcoming event.
1. ASelf-Handicapping (p. 100)
2. BIllusion of Control (p. 100)
3. CBelief in a Just World (p. 100-101)
4. DLevelling (p. 107)
27Belief that we have more control over our world than we really do.
1. ASelf-Handicapping (p. 100)
2. BIllusion of Control (p. 100)
3. CBelief in a Just World (p. 100-101)
4. DThe False Consensus Effect (p. 98-99)
28Belief that the world is a just and predictable place where good things happen to ‘good people’ and bad things happen to ‘bad people’.
1. ASelf-Handicapping (p. 100)
2. BIllusion of Control (p. 100)
3. CBelief in a Just World (p. 100-101)
4. DLevelling (p. 107)
29Process of assigning the cause of one’s own or others’ behaviour to group membership.
1. AIntergroup Attribution (p. 102)
2. BStereotype (p. 103)
3. CSocial Representations (p. 105)
4. DBehaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
30Evaluative preference for all aspects of our own group relative to other groups.
1. AEthnocentrism (p. 102)
2. BUltimate Attribution Error (p. 102)
3. CStereotype (p. 103)
4. DSharpening (p. 107)
31Tendency to attribute bad outgroup and good ingroup behaviour internally and attribute good outgroup and bad ingroup behaviour externally.
1. AUltimate Attribution Error (p. 102)
2. BCorrespondence Bias (or Fundamental Attribution Error) (p. 95)
3. COutcome Bias (p. 86)
4. DStereotype (p. 103)
32Collectively elaborated explanations of unfamiliar and complex phenomena that transform them into a familiar and simple form.
1. AStereotype (p. 103)
2. BSocial Representations (p. 105)
3. CIntergroup Attribution (p. 102)
4. DCausal Schemata (p. 89)
33Three processes associated with rumour transmission
1. ALevelling (p. 107)
2. BSharpening (p. 107)
3. CAssimilation (p. 107)
4. DCausal Schemata (p. 89)
5. EDistinctiveness Information (p. 87)
34The rumour quickly becomes shortened, less detailed and less complex.
1. ALevelling (p. 107)
2. BSharpening (p. 107)
3. CAssimilation (p. 107)
4. DDistinctiveness Information (p. 87)
35Certain features of the rumour are selectively emphasised and exaggerated.
1. ALevelling (p. 107)
2. BSharpening (p. 107)
3. CAssimilation (p. 107)
4. DEssentialism (p. 96)
36The rumour is distorted in line with people’s pre-existing prejudices, partialities, interests and agendas.
1. ALevelling (p. 107)
2. BSharpening (p. 107)
3. CAssimilation (p. 107)
4. DConsensus Information (p. 87)
37Explanation of wide spread, complex and worrying events in terms of the premeditated actions of small groups of highly organised conspirators.
1. AHeider’s Theory of Naive Psychology (p. 85)
2. BJones and Davis’ Theory of Correspondent Inference (p. 86)
3. CKelley’s Covariation Model (p. 87)
4. DConspiracy Theories (p. 108)

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