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PSY204 - Week 04 - Attribution - Chapter 03 - Practice Quiz
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Question 1

Question
The process of assigning cause to our own behaviour, and that of others.
Answer
  • Attribution (p. 84)
  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)
  • Personalism (p. 87)
  • Consistency Information (p. 87)

Question 2

Question
Model of social cognition that characterises people as using rational, scientific-like, cause–effect analyses to understand their world.
Answer
  • Heider’s Theory of Naive Psychology (p. 85)
  • Jones and Davis’ Theory of Correspondent Inference (p. 86)
  • Kelley’s Covariation Model (p. 87)
  • Conspiracy Theories (p. 108)

Question 3

Question
Three Principles of Naïve Psychology (p. 85)
Answer
  • Looking for behaviour causes to discover other people’s motives.
  • Focus on stable and enduring properties.
  • Distinguish between personal factors.
  • Behaviour freely chosen.

Question 4

Question
Explanation of behaviour due to internal reasoning such as personality.
Answer
  • Dispositional Attribution (p. 85)
  • Situational Attribution (p. 85)
  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)
  • Personalism (p. 87)

Question 5

Question
Explanation of behaviour due to external reasoning such as environment.
Answer
  • Dispositional Attribution (p. 85)
  • Situational Attribution (p. 85)
  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)
  • Personalism (p. 87)

Question 6

Question
A theory explaining how people infer that a person’s behaviour corresponds to an underlying disposition or personality trait.
Answer
  • Jones and Davis’ Theory of Correspondent Inference (p. 86)
  • Heider’s Theory of Naive Psychology (p. 85)
  • Kelley’s Covariation Model (p. 87)
  • Conspiracy Theories (p. 108)

Question 7

Question
Five Sources of Information or Cues to Make a Correspondent Inference.
Answer
  • Behaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)
  • Non-Common Effects (p. 86)
  • Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)
  • Personalism (p. 87)
  • Consistency Information (p. 87)

Question 8

Question
The act was freely chosen.
Answer
  • Behaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)
  • Non-Common Effects (p. 86)
  • Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
  • Personalism (p. 87)

Question 9

Question
Effects of behaviour that are relatively exclusive to that behaviour rather than other behaviours.
Answer
  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)
  • Non-Common Effects (p. 86)
  • Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
  • Personalism (p. 87)

Question 10

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Behaviour likely to be controlled by societal norms.
Answer
  • Personalism (p. 87)
  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)
  • Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
  • Non-Common Effects (p. 86)

Question 11

Question
Refers to behaviour that has important direct consequences for self.
Answer
  • Behaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)
  • Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)
  • Personalism (p. 87)

Question 12

Question
Behaviour that appears to be directly intended to benefit or harm oneself rather than others.
Answer
  • Behaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)
  • Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)
  • Personalism (p. 87)

Question 13

Question
A theory of causal attribution whereby people assign the cause of behaviour to the factor that covaries most closely with the behaviour.
Answer
  • Heider’s Theory of Naive Psychology (p. 85)
  • Jones and Davis’ Theory of Correspondent Inference (p. 86)
  • Kelley’s Covariation Model (p. 87)
  • Conspiracy Theory (p. 108)

Question 14

Question
Three Classes of Information Associated with the Co-Occurrence of a Certain Action.
Answer
  • Consistency Information (p. 87)
  • Distinctiveness Information (p. 87)
  • Consensus Information (p. 87)
  • Behaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)
  • Levelling (p. 107)

Question 15

Question
Information about the extent to which a behaviour Y always co-occurs with a stimulus X.
Answer
  • Consistency Information (p. 87)
  • Distinctiveness Information (p. 87)
  • Consensus Information (p. 87)
  • Correlation (p. 13)

Question 16

Question
Information about whether a person’s reaction occurs only with one stimulus, or is a common reaction to many stimuli.
Answer
  • Consistency Information (p. 87)
  • Distinctiveness Information (p. 87)
  • Consensus Information (p. 87)
  • Confounding (p. 10)

Question 17

Question
Information about the extent to which other people react in the same way to a stimulus X.
Answer
  • Consistency Information (p. 87)
  • Distinctiveness Information (p. 87)
  • Consensus Information (p. 87)
  • External Validity (p. 12)

Question 18

Question
Experience-based beliefs about how certain types of cause interact to produce an effect.
Answer
  • Causal Schemata (p. 89)
  • The Actor-Observer Effect (p. 97-98)
  • Illusion of Control (p. 100)
  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)

Question 19

Question
A tendency for people to over-attribute behaviour to stable underlying personality dispositions.
Answer
  • Correspondence Bias (or Fundamental Attribution Error) (p. 95)
  • Outcome Bias (p. 86)
  • Ultimate Attribution Error (p. 102)
  • Personalism (p. 87)

Question 20

Question
Belief that the outcomes of a behaviour were intended by the person who chose the behaviour.
Answer
  • Correspondence Bias (or Fundamental Attribution Error) (p. 95)
  • Outcome Bias (p. 86)
  • Ultimate Attribution Error (p. 102)
  • Personalism (p. 87)

Question 21

Question
Tendency to consider behaviour to reflect underlying and immutable, often innate, properties of people for the groups they belong to.
Answer
  • Essentialism (p. 96)
  • Ultimate Attribution Error (p. 102)
  • Stereotype (p. 103)
  • Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)

Question 22

Question
Tendency to attribute our own behaviours externally and others’ behaviours internally.
Answer
  • The Actor-Observer Effect (p. 97-98)
  • Correspondence Bias (or Fundamental Attribution Error) (p. 95)
  • Ultimate Attribution Error (p. 102)
  • Outcome Bias (p. 86)

Question 23

Question
A tendency to see your own behaviour as more typical than it really is.
Answer
  • The False Consensus Effect (p. 98-99)
  • Self-Serving Bias (p. 99)
  • Causal Schemata (p. 89)
  • Consistency Information (p. 87)

Question 24

Question
Attributional distortions that protect or enhance self-esteem or the self-concept.
Answer
  • Self-Serving Biases (p. 99)
  • Correspondence Bias (or Fundamental Attribution Error) (p. 95)
  • Consistency Information (p. 87)
  • Sharpening (p. 107)

Question 25

Question
Select the all the types of self-serving bias.
Answer
  • Self-Handicapping (p. 100)
  • Illusion of Control (p. 100)
  • Belief in a Just World (p. 100-101)
  • Outcome Bias (p. 86)
  • Sharpening (p. 107)

Question 26

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Publicly making advance external attributions for our anticipated failure or poor performance in a forthcoming event.
Answer
  • Self-Handicapping (p. 100)
  • Illusion of Control (p. 100)
  • Belief in a Just World (p. 100-101)
  • Levelling (p. 107)

Question 27

Question
Belief that we have more control over our world than we really do.
Answer
  • Self-Handicapping (p. 100)
  • Illusion of Control (p. 100)
  • Belief in a Just World (p. 100-101)
  • The False Consensus Effect (p. 98-99)

Question 28

Question
Belief that the world is a just and predictable place where good things happen to ‘good people’ and bad things happen to ‘bad people’.
Answer
  • Self-Handicapping (p. 100)
  • Illusion of Control (p. 100)
  • Belief in a Just World (p. 100-101)
  • Levelling (p. 107)

Question 29

Question
Process of assigning the cause of one’s own or others’ behaviour to group membership.
Answer
  • Intergroup Attribution (p. 102)
  • Stereotype (p. 103)
  • Social Representations (p. 105)
  • Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)

Question 30

Question
Evaluative preference for all aspects of our own group relative to other groups.
Answer
  • Ethnocentrism (p. 102)
  • Ultimate Attribution Error (p. 102)
  • Stereotype (p. 103)
  • Sharpening (p. 107)

Question 31

Question
Tendency to attribute bad outgroup and good ingroup behaviour internally and attribute good outgroup and bad ingroup behaviour externally.
Answer
  • Ultimate Attribution Error (p. 102)
  • Correspondence Bias (or Fundamental Attribution Error) (p. 95)
  • Outcome Bias (p. 86)
  • Stereotype (p. 103)

Question 32

Question
Collectively elaborated explanations of unfamiliar and complex phenomena that transform them into a familiar and simple form.
Answer
  • Stereotype (p. 103)
  • Social Representations (p. 105)
  • Intergroup Attribution (p. 102)
  • Causal Schemata (p. 89)

Question 33

Question
Three processes associated with rumour transmission
Answer
  • Levelling (p. 107)
  • Sharpening (p. 107)
  • Assimilation (p. 107)
  • Causal Schemata (p. 89)
  • Distinctiveness Information (p. 87)

Question 34

Question
The rumour quickly becomes shortened, less detailed and less complex.
Answer
  • Levelling (p. 107)
  • Sharpening (p. 107)
  • Assimilation (p. 107)
  • Distinctiveness Information (p. 87)

Question 35

Question
Certain features of the rumour are selectively emphasised and exaggerated.
Answer
  • Levelling (p. 107)
  • Sharpening (p. 107)
  • Assimilation (p. 107)
  • Essentialism (p. 96)

Question 36

Question
The rumour is distorted in line with people’s pre-existing prejudices, partialities, interests and agendas.
Answer
  • Levelling (p. 107)
  • Sharpening (p. 107)
  • Assimilation (p. 107)
  • Consensus Information (p. 87)

Question 37

Question
Explanation of wide spread, complex and worrying events in terms of the premeditated actions of small groups of highly organised conspirators.
Answer
  • Heider’s Theory of Naive Psychology (p. 85)
  • Jones and Davis’ Theory of Correspondent Inference (p. 86)
  • Kelley’s Covariation Model (p. 87)
  • Conspiracy Theories (p. 108)
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