Week 10 - Attributions and Bias

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PSY234 - Personality and Social Quiz on Week 10 - Attributions and Bias, created by Daniel Whiting on 29/05/2017.
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Question 1

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A correspondent inference is...
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  • An inference that behaviours are related to personal characteristics.
  • An inference that the person on tv is giving us accurate news.
  • When we infer that one cause corresponds to 2 separate inferences.
  • Arrived at from deductive reasoning but not inductive reasoning.

Question 2

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The covariation principle proposes that...
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  • the cause of a behaviour is the factor that covaries the most with that behavior.
  • behaviour corresponds to a personal characteristic.
  • when one variable predicts another with 100% it has a correlation of 1.
  • people's behaviour covaries with the weather.

Question 3

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Which of the following suggests we should be making an internal attribution?
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  • High consistency
  • Low distinctiveness
  • Low consensus
  • Low consistency
  • High distinctiveness
  • High consensus

Question 4

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Which of the following suggests we should make an external attribution for a persons behaviour?
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  • High distinctiveness
  • High consesus
  • High consistency
  • Low distinctiveness
  • Low consensus
  • Low consistency

Question 5

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Once a belief is formed it is very hard to change it. This is an example of?
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  • Belief perseverance
  • Availability heuristic
  • Confirmation bias
  • Belief formation theory

Question 6

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Our tendency to judge what group someone is in based on how close they resemble the average member of that category is called the...
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  • Representative heuristic
  • Availability bias
  • Confirmation bias
  • Similarity hypothesis

Question 7

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Which of the following can increase the illusion of control?
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  • Personal choice
  • Familiarity
  • Involvement
  • Competition
  • The rubber hand illusion
  • Being in charge of an unrelated task
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