Mini Unit 10 Quiz

When individuals explain their own behavior as being caused by external factors rather than internal traits, they are making:

• Optimistic attributions
• Dispositional attributions
• Explanatory style attributions
• Situational attributions

The tendency to attribute others' behaviors to their personality traits rather than situational factors is known as:

• Mere exposure effect
• Actor/observer bias
• Self-serving bias
• Fundamental attribution error

Believing that good things happen due to one's own efforts but bad things happen due to external factors illustrates:

• Self-serving bias
• Dispositional attributions
• Optimistic explanatory style
• Pessimistic explanatory style

The phenomenon where people tend to like something more after being exposed to it multiple times is known as:

• Self-fulfilling prophecy
• Mere exposure effect
• Social comparison
• Attribution biases

When individuals perceive members of their own group as more diverse than members of other groups, they are exhibiting:

• Ethnocentrism
• Out-group homogeneity bias
• Belief perseverance
• In-group bias

The tendency to explain away inconsistencies in one's own beliefs or actions is called:

• Confirmation bias
• Cognitive dissonance
• Social norms
• Persuasion

Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard is known as:

• Conformity
• Obedience
• Social influence theory
• Cultural phenomena

The theory that distinguishes between central and peripheral routes to persuasion is the:

• Persuasion theory
• Elaboration likelihood model
• Halo effect
• Foot-in-the-door technique

When individuals change their attitudes or behaviors to match a perceived group norm, they are influenced by:

• Normative social influence
• Informational social influence
• Persuasion
• Elaboration likelihood

The tendency to favor information that confirms existing beliefs while disregarding contradictory evidence is:

• Social reciprocity norm
• Confirmation bias
• Social responsibility norm
• False consensus effect