Social Psychology and Fundamental Attribution Error.
psycology1.|The text defines social psychology as the scientific study of how people ________ one another.|
A)|understand, feel about, and behave toward|
B)|think about, influence, and relate to|
C)|observe, understand, and communicate with|
D)|understand, predict, and control|
E)|perceive, think about, and talk about|
2.|In order to analyze how people explain others' behavior, Fritz Heider developed:|
A)|cognitive dissonance theory.|
B)|impression management theory.|
C)|social exchange theory.|
D)|attribution theory.|
E)|self-disclosure theory.|
3.|Victor explains that his brother's aggressive behavior results from his brother's insecurity. Victor's explanation of his brother's behavior is an example of:|
A)|the reciprocity norm.|
B)|deindividuation.|
C)|the bystander effect.|
D)|the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.|
E)|an attribution.|
4.|The tendency for observers to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal dispositions upon another's behavior is called:|
A)|the bystander effect.|
B)|the fundamental attribution error.|
C)|deindividuation.|
D)|ingroup bias.|
E)|the mere exposure effect.|
5.|Students who were told that a young woman had been instructed to act in a very unfriendly way for the purposes of the experiment concluded that her behavior:|
A)|reflected her personal disposition.|
B)|was situationally determined.|
C)|demonstrated role playing.|
D)|illustrated normative social influence.|
E)|was the product of deindividuation.|
6.|A dispositional attribution is to ________ as a situational attribution is to ________.|
A)|normative influence; informational influence|
B)|high ability; low motivation|
C)|personality traits; social roles|
D)|politically liberal; politically conservative|
E)|introversion; extraversion|
7.|Rhonda has just learned that her neighbor Patricia was involved in an automobile accident at a nearby intersection. The tendency to make the
A)|understand, feel about, and behave toward|
B)|think about, influence, and relate to|
C)|observe, understand, and communicate with|
D)|understand, predict, and control|
E)|perceive, think about, and talk about|
2.|In order to analyze how people explain others' behavior, Fritz Heider developed:|
A)|cognitive dissonance theory.|
B)|impression management theory.|
C)|social exchange theory.|
D)|attribution theory.|
E)|self-disclosure theory.|
3.|Victor explains that his brother's aggressive behavior results from his brother's insecurity. Victor's explanation of his brother's behavior is an example of:|
A)|the reciprocity norm.|
B)|deindividuation.|
C)|the bystander effect.|
D)|the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.|
E)|an attribution.|
4.|The tendency for observers to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal dispositions upon another's behavior is called:|
A)|the bystander effect.|
B)|the fundamental attribution error.|
C)|deindividuation.|
D)|ingroup bias.|
E)|the mere exposure effect.|
5.|Students who were told that a young woman had been instructed to act in a very unfriendly way for the purposes of the experiment concluded that her behavior:|
A)|reflected her personal disposition.|
B)|was situationally determined.|
C)|demonstrated role playing.|
D)|illustrated normative social influence.|
E)|was the product of deindividuation.|
6.|A dispositional attribution is to ________ as a situational attribution is to ________.|
A)|normative influence; informational influence|
B)|high ability; low motivation|
C)|personality traits; social roles|
D)|politically liberal; politically conservative|
E)|introversion; extraversion|
7.|Rhonda has just learned that her neighbor Patricia was involved in an automobile accident at a nearby intersection. The tendency to make the