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PSY234 - Personality and Social Quiz on Week 10 - Attributions and Bias, created by Daniel Whiting on 29/05/2017.

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Week 10 - Attributions and Bias

Question 1 of 7

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A correspondent inference is...

Select one of the following:

  • An inference that behaviours are related to personal characteristics.

  • An inference that the person on tv is giving us accurate news.

  • When we infer that one cause corresponds to 2 separate inferences.

  • Arrived at from deductive reasoning but not inductive reasoning.

Explanation

Question 2 of 7

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The covariation principle proposes that...

Select one of the following:

  • the cause of a behaviour is the factor that covaries the most with that behavior.

  • behaviour corresponds to a personal characteristic.

  • when one variable predicts another with 100% it has a correlation of 1.

  • people's behaviour covaries with the weather.

Explanation

Question 3 of 7

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Which of the following suggests we should be making an internal attribution?

Select one or more of the following:

  • High consistency

  • Low distinctiveness

  • Low consensus

  • Low consistency

  • High distinctiveness

  • High consensus

Explanation

Question 4 of 7

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Which of the following suggests we should make an external attribution for a persons behaviour?

Select one or more of the following:

  • High distinctiveness

  • High consesus

  • High consistency

  • Low distinctiveness

  • Low consensus

  • Low consistency

Explanation

Question 5 of 7

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Once a belief is formed it is very hard to change it.

This is an example of?

Select one of the following:

  • Belief perseverance

  • Availability heuristic

  • Confirmation bias

  • Belief formation theory

Explanation

Question 6 of 7

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Our tendency to judge what group someone is in based on how close they resemble the average member of that category is called the...

Select one of the following:

  • Representative heuristic

  • Availability bias

  • Confirmation bias

  • Similarity hypothesis

Explanation

Question 7 of 7

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Which of the following can increase the illusion of control?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Personal choice

  • Familiarity

  • Involvement

  • Competition

  • The rubber hand illusion

  • Being in charge of an unrelated task

Explanation

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