Social Thinking: Crash Course Psychology #37

Alfonso failed his geology midterm. If he makes an dispositional attribution for his failure, he is MOST likely to say: 

• “It was just bad luck that most of the exam was on the one chapter I didn’t study.”

• “That professor has impossible exams; if I retake the class with a different professor, I’ll probably do much better.”

• “I just can’t seem to catch on in my geology classes, and I don’t think I’ll ever learn all those terms.”

Which of the following are example(s) provided so far in the video, of ways a change in attitudes first will most likely lead to a change in behavior? (select all that apply) 

• The foot-in-the-door technique. 

• Peripheral route to persuasion. 

• The Fundamental Attribution Error. 

• Central Route to persuasion 

Based on the information provided in the video, Sanford's Prison study randomly assigned participants to either the control or the experimental group. .

• FALSE 

• TRUE 

Narrator: "The initial trauma of the humiliation of the arrest, the booking, strip-searching and waiting, immediately kicked off a loss of (self) __________." 

• identity 

• protection

• role 

• esteem 

Which of the following statement is correct about Stanford's prison study? 

• The cruel and abusive behaviors were dispositional and situational. 

• The cruel and abusive behaviors were mostly dispositional. 

• The cruel and abusive behaviors were situational. 

Tally just heard that her neighbor, Rupert, was involved in an automobile accident. If Tally concludes that Rupert’s reckless driving habits caused the accident, she has

• used the foot-in-the-door technique. 

• made a situational attribution. 

• committed the fundamental attribution error. 

• engaged in cognitive dissonance.