AP Psych Unit 4 Vocab Quiz

the tendency for observers to, when analyzing another’s behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition

• Fundamental attribution error
• Actor-observer effect
• Confirmation bias
• Self-serving bias

“I failed the test because I'm just not smart enough, and I'll probably always struggle with this subject matter”. This is an example of

• self-doubt in the Hierarchy of Needs

• Pessimistic explanatory Style

• positive affirmation
• growth mindset

The tendency to attribute other people's behavior or internal causes while attributing our own behavior (especially errors and failures) to external causes.

• Self-serving bias
• Confirmation bias
• Actor-observer bias

• Just being real

When a student attributes a good grade on an exam to their own intelligence and hard work, but blames a bad grade on a difficult test or the teacher's poor instruction. This is an example of

• self-serving bias
• self-fulfilling prophecy
• fundamental attribution error
• confirmation bias

When individuals attribute their personal decisions, efforts, abilities, hard work about their future, for example, this is called

• internal locus of control
• social influence
• random chance
• external locus of control

The following is an example of which psychology term? s

You starts to like a song more just because you hear it played repeatedly on Tiktok, even if you didn’t really like it to begin with

• Cognitive dissonance
• Confirmation bias
• Social facilitation
• Mere exposure effect

When comparing yourself to someone seen as being worse off in a particular situation.

• Neutral social comparison
• Equal social comparison
• Upward social comparison
• Downward social comparison

The perception that one has less than what they believe they are entitled to

• Status anxiety
• Relative deprivation
• Economic inequality
• Social comparison

an unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members is called

• stereotype
• prejudice
• bias
• discrimination

The tendency to believe that the world is just and fair; people get what they deserve and deserve what they get.

• Equity theory
• Fairness theory
• Just-world phenomenon

• Moral luck