Question 1

Research has shown that explaining why an opposite theory may be true (e.g. ,why a cautious person might be a better firefighter than a risk-taking person) _______ belief perseverance.

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A)  slightly increases
B)  maintains
C)  reduces
D)  significantly increasesE) A) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 2

Although you once earned a 100 on your physics exam,you have subsequently been unable to earn a perfect score again.Your experience may be understood in terms of

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A)  the illusory correlation.
B)  regression toward the average.
C)  the representativeness heuristiC.
D)  counterfactual thinking.E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 3

The tendency for observers to underestimate situational influences and overestimate dispositional influences on other people's behavior is called the

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A)  false consensus bias.
B)  misinformation effect.
C)  fundamental attribution error.
D)  dispositional bias.E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 4

The theory that explains people's behavior by attributing it to internal dispositions or external situations is called

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A)  dispositional theory.
B)  motivational theory.
C)  situational theory.
D)  attribution theory.E) A) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 5

Joanna went over to a friend's house and rented the horror movie "Saw II." At 2:00 a.m.she awoke to a scratching sound at her window.Instead of thinking the noise is the result of a tree branch she believed it was a serial killer trying to break in.This is an example of

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A)  priming.
B)  attribution.
C)  automatic processing.
D)  controlled processing.E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 6

The tendency to attribute our own behaviors to the environment and label others with traits is the

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A)  actor-observer perspective.
B)  fundamental attribution error.
C)  camera perspective bias.
D)  result of self-awareness.E) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 7

According to the text,many men assume women are flattered by repeated requests for dates,which women more often see as harassing.This is an example of

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A)  arrogance.
B)  a lack of intuition.
C)  misattribution.
D)  miscommunication.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT an example of automatic thinking?

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A)  schemas
B)  emotional reactions
C)  expertise
D)  reflectionE) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 9

You attend a party where you do not know anyone,but expect that people will be friendly.You behave in a warm and sociable manner.Your behavior,in turn,leads to other people being friendly to you.This situation can best be described as

Accepted Answer

A)  the illusory correlation.
B)  the representativeness heuristic.
C)  the availability heuristiC.
D)  behavioral confirmation.E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 10

Your boss is always cranky.You assume this is because he has not had a raise in 10 years.What type of attribution are you making to explain his behavior?

Accepted Answer

A)  motivational
B)  dispositional
C)  situational
D)  common senseE) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 11

Which statement is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  Our first impressions of one another are more often wrong than right.
B)  Modern psychologists no longer believe that unconscious processes influence our perceptions.
C)  Once a belief has been discredited,most people discard it immediately.
D)  People tend to be more confident than they are correct.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 12

Murray and his colleagues (2003) found that among married couples,the self- fulfilling prophecy occurred when one person interpreted slight hurts as rejections.
The person who felt rejected was then motivated to

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A)  value their partner for his or her honesty.
B)  value their partner yet become distant from him or her.
C)  devalue their partner but make an effort to become close to him or her.
D)  devalue their partner and become distant from him or her.E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 13

What is illusory thinking and what are its effects?

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Question 14

The idea that chance events are subject to our influence describes

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A)  an illusory correlation.
B)  an illusion of control.
C)  a representative heuristiC.
D)  an availability heuristic.E) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 15

If you are told that someone you have never met is attracted to you,you will likely

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A)  behave toward that person in a way that draws out their flirtatious behavior.
B)  behave toward that person in a way that causes them to become shy and withdrawn.
C)  feel little attraction to that person.
D)  avoid that person if you can.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 16

Researchers had students write essays opposing student control over university curricula.When asked to recall how they had felt about the same issue a week earlier,most of the students

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A)  remembered having held a very different attitude.
B)  could not remember how they had felt.
C)  mistakenly "remembered" having felt the same as they do now.
D)  admitted they had always supported student control of university curricula but pretended to oppose it in their essays.E) A) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 17

Once during a hospital stay,you observed a man and a woman (both in health professional attire) talking.You assumed that the man was a physician and that the woman was a nurse.Later,you found out the opposite was true.What type of heuristic did you use during your initial reaction to the two individuals?

Accepted Answer

A)  availability heuristic
B)  representativeness heuristic
C)  vividness heuristic
D)  matching heuristicE) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 18

According to your text,people everywhere perceive mediators and the media as

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A)  biased in favor of their position.
B)  objective in their decisions and coverage.
C)  biased against their position.
D)  biased against the president.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 19

Imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that might have been is an example of

Accepted Answer

A)  a representative heuristic.
B)  counterfactual thinking.
C)  an illusory correlation.
D)  the overconfidence phenomenon.E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 20

The process of judging something by intuitively comparing it to our mental representation of a category uses the _____ heuristic.

Accepted Answer

A)  availability
B)  representativeness
C)  vividness
D)  matchingE) B) and D)
F) All of the above

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