Topic 3 - Social Beliefs & Judgement

The tendency to explain someone's behaviour based on internal factors and underestimate the external factors is called:

• Correspondence bias

• Fundamental attribution error

• Perceptual salience

• The two-Step process of attribution

According to Kelley covariation model, when we make attributions, we should _.

• be aware of the perceptual salience

• consider more than one piece of information before making any attribution

• observe the situation before making the attribution

• choose one piece of information in order to make an accurate attribution

Which of the following is the universal type of emotion expression humans have?

• Anger, Surprise, Shame, Disgust, Fear and Sadness

• Surprise, Guilt, Fear, Anger, Happiness, and Sadness

• Happiness, Surprise, Anger, Fear, Disgust and Sadness

• Fear, Embarrassment, Anger, Surprise, Happiness, and Disgust

The followings are the causes of inaccuracy in decoding facial expression, EXCEPT

• Affect blends

  
  

• People try to appear less emotional than they are

  
  

• Culture

  
  

• Emblems

When you credit internal factors for your success and blame external factors for your failure, you are doing _.

• Defensive attributions

• Self-serving attributions

• Correspondence bias

• Perceptual salience

In priming, the factor that may increase the likelihood for a schema to be accessible is _.

• past experiences

• social expectations

• recent experiences

• base rate information

Your classmate submits an assignment late. Based on _ of causal attribution, you say that he is lazy and irresponsible.

• Internal attribution

• External attribution

• Kelley Covariation Model

• Priming

Chloe finishes second in a 100-meter sprint and wins the silver medal, but she is unhappy because she can’t stop thinking about the fact that she was so close to wining the gold medal. Max however, finishes third and wins a bronze medal and she felt great and satisfied because she realized how close she came to finishing fourth and therefore not wining a medal. Chloe’s reactions reflect _.

• belief in a just world

• self-serving attribution

• counterfactual thinking

• defensive attribution

When deciding what to have for lunch, Nakamura automatically thought of the nearby Italian restaurant because he read a good reviews about the restaurant. Nakamura's schema is based on _ heuristic.

OPTION:
Availability
Anchoring
Representative

(a)  

Josuke is late to the Social Psychology class.

The consensus information is LOW when:

• Everyone is late to the Social Psychology class.

• Josuke is late to to the other class.

• This is the first time Josuke is late to the Social Psychology class.

• Josuke is the only one that is late to the Social Psychology class.