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PSY204 Attribution

Question 1 of 37

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The process of assigning cause to our own behaviour, and that of others.

Select one of the following:

  • Attribution (p. 84)

  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)

  • Personalism (p. 87)

  • Consistency Information (p. 87)

Explanation

Question 2 of 37

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Model of social cognition that characterises people as using rational, scientific-like, cause–effect analyses to understand their world.

Select one of the following:

  • Heider’s Theory of Naive Psychology (p. 85)

  • Jones and Davis’ Theory of Correspondent Inference (p. 86)

  • Kelley’s Covariation Model (p. 87)

  • Conspiracy Theories (p. 108)

Explanation

Question 3 of 37

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Three Principles of Naïve Psychology (p. 85)

Select one or more of the following:

  • Looking for behaviour causes to discover other people’s motives.

  • Focus on stable and enduring properties.

  • Distinguish between personal factors.

  • Behaviour freely chosen.

Explanation

Question 4 of 37

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Explanation of behaviour due to internal reasoning such as personality.

Select one of the following:

  • Dispositional Attribution (p. 85)

  • Situational Attribution (p. 85)

  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)

  • Personalism (p. 87)

Explanation

Question 5 of 37

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Explanation of behaviour due to external reasoning such as environment.

Select one of the following:

  • Dispositional Attribution (p. 85)

  • Situational Attribution (p. 85)

  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)

  • Personalism (p. 87)

Explanation

Question 6 of 37

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A theory explaining how people infer that a person’s behaviour corresponds to an underlying disposition or personality trait.

Select one of the following:

  • Jones and Davis’ Theory of Correspondent Inference (p. 86)

  • Heider’s Theory of Naive Psychology (p. 85)

  • Kelley’s Covariation Model (p. 87)

  • Conspiracy Theories (p. 108)

Explanation

Question 7 of 37

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Five Sources of Information or Cues to Make a Correspondent Inference.

Select one or more of the following:

  • Behaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)

  • Non-Common Effects (p. 86)

  • Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)

  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)

  • Personalism (p. 87)

  • Consistency Information (p. 87)

Explanation

Question 8 of 37

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The act was freely chosen.

Select one of the following:

  • Behaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)

  • Non-Common Effects (p. 86)

  • Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)

  • Personalism (p. 87)

Explanation

Question 9 of 37

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Effects of behaviour that are relatively exclusive to that behaviour rather than other behaviours.

Select one of the following:

  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)

  • Non-Common Effects (p. 86)

  • Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)

  • Personalism (p. 87)

Explanation

Question 10 of 37

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Behaviour likely to be controlled by societal norms.

Select one of the following:

  • Personalism (p. 87)

  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)

  • Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)

  • Non-Common Effects (p. 86)

Explanation

Question 11 of 37

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Refers to behaviour that has important direct consequences for self.

Select one of the following:

  • Behaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)

  • Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)

  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)

  • Personalism (p. 87)

Explanation

Question 12 of 37

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Behaviour that appears to be directly intended to benefit or harm oneself rather than others.

Select one of the following:

  • Behaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)

  • Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)

  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)

  • Personalism (p. 87)

Explanation

Question 13 of 37

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A theory of causal attribution whereby people assign the cause of behaviour to the factor that covaries most closely with the behaviour.

Select one of the following:

  • Heider’s Theory of Naive Psychology (p. 85)

  • Jones and Davis’ Theory of Correspondent Inference (p. 86)

  • Kelley’s Covariation Model (p. 87)

  • Conspiracy Theory (p. 108)

Explanation

Question 14 of 37

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Three Classes of Information Associated with the Co-Occurrence of a Certain Action.

Select one or more of the following:

  • Consistency Information (p. 87)

  • Distinctiveness Information (p. 87)

  • Consensus Information (p. 87)

  • Behaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)

  • Levelling (p. 107)

Explanation

Question 15 of 37

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Information about the extent to which a behaviour Y always co-occurs with a stimulus X.

Select one of the following:

  • Consistency Information (p. 87)

  • Distinctiveness Information (p. 87)

  • Consensus Information (p. 87)

  • Correlation (p. 13)

Explanation

Question 16 of 37

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Information about whether a person’s reaction occurs only with one stimulus, or is a common reaction to many stimuli.

Select one of the following:

  • Consistency Information (p. 87)

  • Distinctiveness Information (p. 87)

  • Consensus Information (p. 87)

  • Confounding (p. 10)

Explanation

Question 17 of 37

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Information about the extent to which other people react in the same way to a stimulus X.

Select one of the following:

  • Consistency Information (p. 87)

  • Distinctiveness Information (p. 87)

  • Consensus Information (p. 87)

  • External Validity (p. 12)

Explanation

Question 18 of 37

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Experience-based beliefs about how certain types of cause interact to produce an effect.

Select one of the following:

  • Causal Schemata (p. 89)

  • The Actor-Observer Effect (p. 97-98)

  • Illusion of Control (p. 100)

  • Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)

Explanation

Question 19 of 37

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A tendency for people to over-attribute behaviour to stable underlying personality dispositions.

Select one of the following:

  • Correspondence Bias (or Fundamental Attribution Error) (p. 95)

  • Outcome Bias (p. 86)

  • Ultimate Attribution Error (p. 102)

  • Personalism (p. 87)

Explanation

Question 20 of 37

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Belief that the outcomes of a behaviour were intended by the person who chose the behaviour.

Select one of the following:

  • Correspondence Bias (or Fundamental Attribution Error) (p. 95)

  • Outcome Bias (p. 86)

  • Ultimate Attribution Error (p. 102)

  • Personalism (p. 87)

Explanation

Question 21 of 37

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Tendency to consider behaviour to reflect underlying and immutable, often innate, properties of people for the groups they belong to.

Select one of the following:

  • Essentialism (p. 96)

  • Ultimate Attribution Error (p. 102)

  • Stereotype (p. 103)

  • Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)

Explanation

Question 22 of 37

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Tendency to attribute our own behaviours externally and others’ behaviours internally.

Select one of the following:

  • The Actor-Observer Effect (p. 97-98)

  • Correspondence Bias (or Fundamental Attribution Error) (p. 95)

  • Ultimate Attribution Error (p. 102)

  • Outcome Bias (p. 86)

Explanation

Question 23 of 37

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A tendency to see your own behaviour as more typical than it really is.

Select one of the following:

  • The False Consensus Effect (p. 98-99)

  • Self-Serving Bias (p. 99)

  • Causal Schemata (p. 89)

  • Consistency Information (p. 87)

Explanation

Question 24 of 37

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Attributional distortions that protect or enhance self-esteem or the self-concept.

Select one of the following:

  • Self-Serving Biases (p. 99)

  • Correspondence Bias (or Fundamental Attribution Error) (p. 95)

  • Consistency Information (p. 87)

  • Sharpening (p. 107)

Explanation

Question 25 of 37

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Select the all the types of self-serving bias.

Select one or more of the following:

  • Self-Handicapping (p. 100)

  • Illusion of Control (p. 100)

  • Belief in a Just World (p. 100-101)

  • Outcome Bias (p. 86)

  • Sharpening (p. 107)

Explanation

Question 26 of 37

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Publicly making advance external attributions for our anticipated failure or poor performance in a forthcoming event.

Select one of the following:

  • Self-Handicapping (p. 100)

  • Illusion of Control (p. 100)

  • Belief in a Just World (p. 100-101)

  • Levelling (p. 107)

Explanation

Question 27 of 37

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Belief that we have more control over our world than we really do.

Select one of the following:

  • Self-Handicapping (p. 100)

  • Illusion of Control (p. 100)

  • Belief in a Just World (p. 100-101)

  • The False Consensus Effect (p. 98-99)

Explanation

Question 28 of 37

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Belief that the world is a just and predictable place where good things happen to ‘good people’ and bad things happen to ‘bad people’.

Select one of the following:

  • Self-Handicapping (p. 100)

  • Illusion of Control (p. 100)

  • Belief in a Just World (p. 100-101)

  • Levelling (p. 107)

Explanation

Question 29 of 37

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Process of assigning the cause of one’s own or others’ behaviour to group membership.

Select one of the following:

  • Intergroup Attribution (p. 102)

  • Stereotype (p. 103)

  • Social Representations (p. 105)

  • Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)

Explanation

Question 30 of 37

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Evaluative preference for all aspects of our own group relative to other groups.

Select one of the following:

  • Ethnocentrism (p. 102)

  • Ultimate Attribution Error (p. 102)

  • Stereotype (p. 103)

  • Sharpening (p. 107)

Explanation

Question 31 of 37

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Tendency to attribute bad outgroup and good ingroup behaviour internally and attribute good outgroup and bad ingroup behaviour externally.

Select one of the following:

  • Ultimate Attribution Error (p. 102)

  • Correspondence Bias (or Fundamental Attribution Error) (p. 95)

  • Outcome Bias (p. 86)

  • Stereotype (p. 103)

Explanation

Question 32 of 37

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Collectively elaborated explanations of unfamiliar and complex phenomena that transform them into a familiar and simple form.

Select one of the following:

  • Stereotype (p. 103)

  • Social Representations (p. 105)

  • Intergroup Attribution (p. 102)

  • Causal Schemata (p. 89)

Explanation

Question 33 of 37

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Three processes associated with rumour transmission

Select one or more of the following:

  • Levelling (p. 107)

  • Sharpening (p. 107)

  • Assimilation (p. 107)

  • Causal Schemata (p. 89)

  • Distinctiveness Information (p. 87)

Explanation

Question 34 of 37

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The rumour quickly becomes shortened, less detailed and less complex.

Select one of the following:

  • Levelling (p. 107)

  • Sharpening (p. 107)

  • Assimilation (p. 107)

  • Distinctiveness Information (p. 87)

Explanation

Question 35 of 37

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Certain features of the rumour are selectively emphasised and exaggerated.

Select one of the following:

  • Levelling (p. 107)

  • Sharpening (p. 107)

  • Assimilation (p. 107)

  • Essentialism (p. 96)

Explanation

Question 36 of 37

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The rumour is distorted in line with people’s pre-existing prejudices, partialities, interests and agendas.

Select one of the following:

  • Levelling (p. 107)

  • Sharpening (p. 107)

  • Assimilation (p. 107)

  • Consensus Information (p. 87)

Explanation

Question 37 of 37

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Explanation of wide spread, complex and worrying events in terms of the premeditated actions of small groups of highly organised conspirators.

Select one of the following:

  • Heider’s Theory of Naive Psychology (p. 85)

  • Jones and Davis’ Theory of Correspondent Inference (p. 86)

  • Kelley’s Covariation Model (p. 87)

  • Conspiracy Theories (p. 108)

Explanation

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