WorksheetsSocial Cognition & Attribution
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
A cognitive miser is anyone who seeks out quick, adequate solutions to problems rather than slow, careful ones
True
False
Name for any mental process involved with knowing, awareness, perception, remembering, reasoning, judgment, or problem-solving.
Cognition
Attribution
Theory of Cognitive Miserness
Disposition
A distortion of thinking involving a tendency for people to perceive information through a filter of personal experience or preferences
Cognition
Attribution Error
Cognitive Bias
Social Cognition
The ways that our thinking, feeling, or beliefs that are constructed within a social context by the actual or imagined interactions with others
Cognitive Miser
Social Cognition
Attribution
Cognitive Bias
Which of the following is NOT an assumption of Social Cognition?
Self-esteem guides human behavior
People to seek causes of human behavior
People constantly want change
People are cognitive misers
The process by which individuals explain the causes of behavior and events
Disposition
Self Serving Bias
Cognitive miser
Attribution
Any error made when attempting to explain a cause of a behavior or event
Attribution Bias
Cognition
Self-Serving Bias
None of the answers listed here is correct
A situational attribution is when an assumed cause of a behavior...
is thought to come from within a person
is thought to come from outside a person
is thought to be biased
is thought to impact self esteem
The tendency to explain our own successes to dispositional causes and our failures to situational causes - in order to protect our self-esteem.
Social Cognition
Situational Attribution
Self-serving Bias
Cognitive Selfishness
When the assumed cause of someone else's behavior is thought to be "internally" caused
Dispositional Attribution
Situational Attribution
Self-serving Attribution
Attribution
All people have a tendency to be cognitive misers
True
False
A tendency to overgeneralize how a group of people will behave based on the interaction with only one person from that group.
Group Attribution Error
Cognitive Bias
Cognitive Miserness
The tendency to overestimate the degree to which internal causes (dispositions) have an impact on another person's behavior - while at the same time minimizing the possible influence of situational causes
Fundamental Attribution Error
Bias
Dispositional Attribution
Situational Attribution
Which is the best example of FAE
Observing someone trip on the sidewalk and assuming it is because they are clumsy
Observing someone trip on the sidewalk and assuming it is because the sidewalk was uneven
Which is the best example of SSB (Self Serving Bias)
Assuming that my success on a test was because I am intelligent while another person's success is due to luck
Assuming that my success on a test was because I am lucky while another person's success is due to their intelligence
Why people tend to be "cognitive misers"....
To save time and conserve resources
Because we are born lazy
To make ourselves feel better
To protect our self esteem
