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Social Cognition & Attribution

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A cognitive miser is anyone who seeks out quick, adequate solutions to problems rather than slow, careful ones

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Name for any mental process involved with knowing, awareness, perception, remembering, reasoning, judgment, or problem-solving.

a)

Cognition

b)

Attribution

c)

Theory of Cognitive Miserness

d)

Disposition

3.

A distortion of thinking involving a tendency for people to perceive information through a filter of personal experience or preferences

a)

Cognition

b)

Attribution Error

c)

Cognitive Bias

d)

Social Cognition

4.

The ways that our thinking, feeling, or beliefs that are constructed within a social context by the actual or imagined interactions with others

a)

Cognitive Miser

b)

Social Cognition

c)

Attribution

d)

Cognitive Bias

5.

Which of the following is NOT an assumption of Social Cognition?

a)

Self-esteem guides human behavior

b)

People to seek causes of human behavior

c)

People constantly want change

d)

People are cognitive misers

6.

The process by which individuals explain the causes of behavior and events

a)

Disposition

b)

Self Serving Bias

c)

Cognitive miser

d)

Attribution

7.

Any error made when attempting to explain a cause of a behavior or event

a)

Attribution Bias

b)

Cognition

c)

Self-Serving Bias

d)

None of the answers listed here is correct

8.

A situational attribution is when an assumed cause of a behavior...

a)

is thought to come from within a person

b)

is thought to come from outside a person

c)

is thought to be biased

d)

is thought to impact self esteem

9.

The tendency to explain our own successes to dispositional causes and our failures to situational causes - in order to protect our self-esteem.

a)

Social Cognition

b)

Situational Attribution

c)

Self-serving Bias

d)

Cognitive Selfishness

10.

When the assumed cause of someone else's behavior is thought to be "internally" caused

a)

Dispositional Attribution

b)

Situational Attribution

c)

Self-serving Attribution

d)

Attribution

11.

All people have a tendency to be cognitive misers

a)

True

b)

False

12.

A tendency to overgeneralize how a group of people will behave based on the interaction with only one person from that group.

a)

Group Attribution Error

b)

Cognitive Bias

c)

Cognitive Miserness

13.

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

a)

Fundamental Attribution Error

b)

Bias

c)

Dispositional Attribution

d)

Situational Attribution

14.

Which is the best example of FAE

a)

Observing someone trip on the sidewalk and assuming it is because they are clumsy

b)

Observing someone trip on the sidewalk and assuming it is because the sidewalk was uneven

15.

Which is the best example of SSB (Self Serving Bias)

a)

Assuming that my success on a test was because I am intelligent while another person's success is due to luck

b)

Assuming that my success on a test was because I am lucky while another person's success is due to their intelligence

16.

Why people tend to be "cognitive misers"....

a)

To save time and conserve resources

b)

Because we are born lazy

c)

To make ourselves feel better

d)

To protect our self esteem