AP Psych Attribution

Front

Teachers may inaccurately assume that teenagers are all the same. They inaccurately underestimate the diversity among teenagers.

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Outgroup homogeneity effect

Front

A parent views the child's messy bedroom and thinks that the child is MESSY and LAZY! The parent does not consider that the child recently had a stomach virus and did not have a chance to clean. What is this an example of?

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Fundamental attribution error

Front

When teachers hear that a student is BRIGHT, they EXPECT MORE from that student and then the student performs better.

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

Front

A woman saves a dog after it falls into a frozen lake breaking through thin ice. The woman says she was lucky to see the dog. The children who were walking the dog call the woman a HERO! What psychological concept is illustrated here?

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Actor-observer bias

Front

A doctor says he is a genius when a surgery goes well, but if there are errors, he blames the stress at the hospital.

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Self-serving bias

Front

A teacher loses a student's papers. The student thinks the teacher is unorganized.

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Fundamental attribution error

Front

Which of the following scenarios best demonstrates a dispositional attribution?
- When seeing a person living in poverty, the onlooker blames the terrible economy.
- Blaming the loud noises from the hall for one's bad performance on an exam.
- Calling a friend a jerk after they come late to your birthday party.
- Your parent gets in a car accident and they blame the broken traffic light.

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Calling a friend a jerk after they come late to your birthday party.