chapter 2 Unit 2 Perceiving others quiz

What is the fundamental attribution error?

• Tendency to place more importance on the most recent impressions over earlier impressions

• Tendency to place more importance on initial impressions than later impressions

• Tendency to overattribute other people’s behaviors to internal rather than external causes

• Tendency to overattribute our successes to internal factors and overattribute our failures to external factors

What is the self-serving bias?

• Tendency to place more importance on the most recent impressions over earlier impressions

• Tendency to place more importance on initial impressions than later impressions

• Tendency to overattribute other people’s behaviors to internal rather than external causes

• Tendency to overattribute our successes to internal factors and overattribute our failures to external factors

What is the primacy effect in perception?

• Tendency to overattribute our successes to internal factors and overattribute our failures to external factors

• Placing more importance on initial impressions than later impressions

• Tendency to place more importance on the most recent impressions over earlier impressions

• Tendency to overattribute other people’s behaviors to internal rather than external causes

What is the recency effect in perception?

• Tendency to place more importance on initial impressions than later impressions

• Tendency to overattribute other people’s behaviors to internal rather than external causes

• Placing more importance on the most recent impressions over earlier impressions

• Tendency to overattribute our successes to internal factors and overattribute our failures to external factors

What is the halo effect?

• Tendency to overattribute other people’s behaviors to internal rather than external causes

• Tendency to place more importance on initial impressions than later impressions

• Initial negative impressions lead us to view later interactions as negative

• Initial positive impressions lead us to view later interactions as positive

What is the horn effect?

• Initial positive impressions lead us to view later interactions as positive

• Tendency to overattribute other people’s behaviors to internal rather than external causes

• Initial negative impressions lead us to view later interactions as negative

• Tendency to place more importance on initial impressions than later impressions

What do cultural identities affect in perception?

• Sounds and smells only

• Communication processes for each gender

• Both sounds and smells, and larger concepts such as marriage and privacy

• Marriage and privacy only

According to the text, how do personality traits affect perception?

• They only influence our successes and failures

• They only influence how we act toward others

• They affect how we see others and ourselves

• They have no impact on perception

What are internal attributions in the context of perception?

• Connect behavior to internal characteristics such as personality traits

• Connect behavior to external characteristics

• Connect behavior to situational factors

• Connect behavior to initial impressions

What are external attributions in the context of perception?

• Connect behavior to external characteristics such as situational factors

• Connect behavior to the most recent impressions

• Connect behavior to internal characteristics such as personality traits

• Connect behavior to initial impressions