What is Social Psychology? - Q. #1

Match the following terms with the correct defintion.

• Internal Factor

• The view that our behavior and actions are determined by our immediate environment and surroundings.

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Our behavior is determined by internal factors.

• Situationism

• An attribute of a person and includes personality traits and temperment.

• Social Psychology

• Examines how people affect one another.

• Dispositionism

• The failure to realize/recognize that the behavior of another can be due to a situational variable, and not always a trait of that person.

Match the following terms with the correct defintion.

• Collectivistic Culture

• Attributing other people's behavior to internal factors while attributing our own behavior to situational forces.

• Actor-Observer Bias

• Belief that people get the outcomes they deserve.

• Self-Serving Bias

• Tendency to explain our successes as due to internal/dispositional characteristics, but to explain our failures as due to external/situational factors.

• Individualistic Culture

• A culture that focuses on individual achievement and autonomy and are the greatest to commit the fundamental attribution error.

• Just-World Hypothesis

• A culture that focuses on communal relationships with others, such as family, friends, and community are are less likely to commit the fundamental attribution error.

What is the correct term for the following defintion? "The believe about the cause of a result."

• Self-Serving Bias

• Attribution

• Individualistic Culture

• Collectivistic Culture

True or False: Social psychologists focus on how people conceptualize and interpret situations and how these interpretations influence their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

• True

• False

True or False: Behavior is NOT a product of both the situation and the person/characteristics.

• True

• False

In regard to the debate of situational vs. personality/internal characteristics, what side do modern social psychologists take on the matter?

• Situational

• Internal

• Both of them are important/impactful

• Neither are important or impactful

The quizmaster study is a great example of which concept of social psychology?

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Self-Serving Bias

• Actor-Observer Bias

• None of the above

Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of an individualistic culture?

• Achievement oriented

• Focus on autonomy

• Dispositional Perspective

• Interdependent

• Analytic thinking style

Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of a collectivistic culture?

• Independent

• Relationship oriented

• Focus on group harmony

• Situational perspective

• Holistic thinking style

What is one consequence of westerners' tendency to provide dispositional explanations for behavior?

• Social Psychology

• Actor-Observer Bias

• Self-Serving Bias

• Victim Blaming