Question 1
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The process of assigning cause to our own behaviour, and that of others.
Question 2
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Model of social cognition that characterises people as using rational, scientific-like, cause–effect analyses to understand their world.
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Heider’s Theory of Naive Psychology (p. 85)
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Jones and Davis’ Theory of Correspondent Inference (p. 86)
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Kelley’s Covariation Model (p. 87)
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Conspiracy Theories (p. 108)
Question 3
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Three Principles of Naïve Psychology (p. 85)
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Looking for behaviour causes to discover other people’s motives.
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Focus on stable and enduring properties.
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Distinguish between personal factors.
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Behaviour freely chosen.
Question 4
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Explanation of behaviour due to internal reasoning such as personality.
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Dispositional Attribution (p. 85)
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Situational Attribution (p. 85)
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Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)
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Personalism (p. 87)
Question 5
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Explanation of behaviour due to external reasoning such as environment.
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Dispositional Attribution (p. 85)
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Situational Attribution (p. 85)
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Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)
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Personalism (p. 87)
Question 6
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A theory explaining how people infer that a person’s behaviour corresponds to an underlying disposition or personality trait.
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Jones and Davis’ Theory of Correspondent Inference (p. 86)
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Heider’s Theory of Naive Psychology (p. 85)
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Kelley’s Covariation Model (p. 87)
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Conspiracy Theories (p. 108)
Question 7
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Five Sources of Information or Cues to Make a Correspondent Inference.
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Behaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)
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Non-Common Effects (p. 86)
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Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
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Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)
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Personalism (p. 87)
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Consistency Information (p. 87)
Question 8
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The act was freely chosen.
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Behaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)
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Non-Common Effects (p. 86)
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Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
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Personalism (p. 87)
Question 9
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Effects of behaviour that are relatively exclusive to that behaviour rather than other behaviours.
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Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)
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Non-Common Effects (p. 86)
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Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
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Personalism (p. 87)
Question 10
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Behaviour likely to be controlled by societal norms.
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Personalism (p. 87)
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Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)
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Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
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Non-Common Effects (p. 86)
Question 11
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Refers to behaviour that has important direct consequences for self.
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Behaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)
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Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
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Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)
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Personalism (p. 87)
Question 12
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Behaviour that appears to be directly intended to benefit or harm oneself rather than others.
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Behaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)
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Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
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Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)
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Personalism (p. 87)
Question 13
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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.
Answer
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Heider’s Theory of Naive Psychology (p. 85)
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Jones and Davis’ Theory of Correspondent Inference (p. 86)
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Kelley’s Covariation Model (p. 87)
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Conspiracy Theory (p. 108)
Question 14
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Three Classes of Information Associated with the Co-Occurrence of a Certain Action.
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Consistency Information (p. 87)
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Distinctiveness Information (p. 87)
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Consensus Information (p. 87)
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Behaviour Freely Chosen (p. 86)
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Levelling (p. 107)
Question 15
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Information about the extent to which a behaviour Y always co-occurs with a stimulus X.
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Consistency Information (p. 87)
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Distinctiveness Information (p. 87)
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Consensus Information (p. 87)
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Correlation (p. 13)
Question 16
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Information about whether a person’s reaction occurs only with one stimulus, or is a common reaction to many stimuli.
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Consistency Information (p. 87)
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Distinctiveness Information (p. 87)
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Consensus Information (p. 87)
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Confounding (p. 10)
Question 17
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Information about the extent to which other people react in the same way to a stimulus X.
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Consistency Information (p. 87)
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Distinctiveness Information (p. 87)
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Consensus Information (p. 87)
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External Validity (p. 12)
Question 18
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Experience-based beliefs about how certain types of cause interact to produce an effect.
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Causal Schemata (p. 89)
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The Actor-Observer Effect (p. 97-98)
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Illusion of Control (p. 100)
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Hedonic Relevance (p. 87)
Question 19
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A tendency for people to over-attribute behaviour to stable underlying personality dispositions.
Question 20
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Belief that the outcomes of a behaviour were intended by the person who chose the behaviour.
Question 21
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Tendency to consider behaviour to reflect underlying and immutable, often innate, properties of people for the groups they belong to.
Question 22
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Tendency to attribute our own behaviours externally and others’ behaviours internally.
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The Actor-Observer Effect (p. 97-98)
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Correspondence Bias (or Fundamental Attribution Error) (p. 95)
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Ultimate Attribution Error (p. 102)
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Outcome Bias (p. 86)
Question 23
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A tendency to see your own behaviour as more typical than it really is.
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The False Consensus Effect (p. 98-99)
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Self-Serving Bias (p. 99)
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Causal Schemata (p. 89)
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Consistency Information (p. 87)
Question 24
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Attributional distortions that protect or enhance self-esteem or the self-concept.
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Self-Serving Biases (p. 99)
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Correspondence Bias (or Fundamental Attribution Error) (p. 95)
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Consistency Information (p. 87)
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Sharpening (p. 107)
Question 25
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Select the all the types of self-serving bias.
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Self-Handicapping (p. 100)
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Illusion of Control (p. 100)
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Belief in a Just World (p. 100-101)
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Outcome Bias (p. 86)
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Sharpening (p. 107)
Question 26
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Publicly making advance external attributions for our anticipated failure or poor performance in a forthcoming event.
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Self-Handicapping (p. 100)
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Illusion of Control (p. 100)
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Belief in a Just World (p. 100-101)
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Levelling (p. 107)
Question 27
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Belief that we have more control over our world than we really do.
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Self-Handicapping (p. 100)
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Illusion of Control (p. 100)
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Belief in a Just World (p. 100-101)
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The False Consensus Effect (p. 98-99)
Question 28
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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’.
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Self-Handicapping (p. 100)
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Illusion of Control (p. 100)
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Belief in a Just World (p. 100-101)
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Levelling (p. 107)
Question 29
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Process of assigning the cause of one’s own or others’ behaviour to group membership.
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Intergroup Attribution (p. 102)
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Stereotype (p. 103)
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Social Representations (p. 105)
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Behaviour Social Desirability (p. 86)
Question 30
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Evaluative preference for all aspects of our own group relative to other groups.
Question 31
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Tendency to attribute bad outgroup and good ingroup behaviour internally and attribute good outgroup and bad ingroup behaviour externally.
Question 32
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Collectively elaborated explanations of unfamiliar and complex phenomena that transform them into a familiar and simple form.
Question 33
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Three processes associated with rumour transmission
Question 34
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The rumour quickly becomes shortened, less detailed and less complex.
Question 35
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Certain features of the rumour are selectively emphasised and exaggerated.
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Levelling (p. 107)
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Sharpening (p. 107)
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Assimilation (p. 107)
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Essentialism (p. 96)
Question 36
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The rumour is distorted in line with people’s pre-existing prejudices, partialities, interests and agendas.
Question 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.
Answer
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Heider’s Theory of Naive Psychology (p. 85)
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Jones and Davis’ Theory of Correspondent Inference (p. 86)
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Kelley’s Covariation Model (p. 87)
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Conspiracy Theories (p. 108)