Chapter 4, Social Perception: How We Come to Understand Other People Video Solutions, Social Psychology

Problem 1

What is a major assumption of Kelley's covariation model of attribution?
a. We make quick attributions after observing one instance of someone's behavior.
b. People make causal attributions using cultural schemas.
c. People infer the cause of others' behaviors through introspection.
d. People gather information to make causal attributions rationally and logically.

Yazeed Hamami

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03:00

Problem 2

Which of the following psychological phenomena shows the least cultural variation?
a. self-serving attributions
b. preferences regarding eye contact and personal space
c. anger facial expressions
d. fundamental attribution error

Emily Himsel

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02:11

Problem 3

Suppose that Mischa has found that when she sits in the first row of discussion classes, she gets a better participation grade, regardless of how much she actually participates. Her positioning in front of the teacher could have an effect on how large of a role the teacher thinks Mischa has in discussion due to
a. the teacher's use of schemas.
b. perceptual salience.
c. the "what is beautiful is good" schema.
d. the two-step process of attribution.

Alexander Cheng

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02:31

Problem 4

Which of the following best illustrates the idea of belief perseverance?
a. The first time Lindsay meets Tobias, she is impressed with his intellect and ambition, but quite quickly she comes to sour on him and see him as lazy and ineffectual.
b. Gob is quite smitten with Marta when he first gets together with her, but once they begin an exclusive dating relationship, he feels that he has made a big mistake.
c. Michael's first impression of Anne is a negative one, and even though he comes to observe her in a variety of scenarios displaying a variety of skills, he remains convinced that she will never amount to very much.
d. Buster was shy and awkward as a young boy and remains much the same now as an adult.

Asma Venkitta

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01:44

Problem 5

Mr. Rowe and Ms. Dabney meet on a blind date. They get along well until they get into his Black convertible to go to a movie. Ms. Dabney is quiet and reserved for the rest of the evening. It turns out that her brother had recently been in a serious accident in that same type of car and seeing it brought up those unwanted emotions. Mr. Rowe assumes that Ms Dabney has a cold and reserved personality, thereby demonstrating.
a. a belief in a just world.
b. the fundamental attribution error
c. perceptual salience.
d. insufficient justification.

Emily Himsel

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00:25

Problem 6

Suppose a certain student, Jake, falls asleep during every chemistry class. Further suppose that Jake is the only one who falls asleep in this class and he falls asleep in all of his other classes. According to Kelley's covariation theory of attribution, how will people explain his behavior?
a. It is due to something unusual about this particular class because his behavior is low in consensus, high in distinctiveness, and high in consistency.
b. Chemistry is really a boring class because Jake's behavior is high in consensus, high in distinctiveness, and high in consistency.
c. It is due to something unusual about Jake because his behavior is low in consensus, low in distinctiveness, and high in consistency.
d. It is due to something peculiar about the circumstances on a particular day because his behavior is high in consensus.

Akhil Choudhary

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01:07

Problem 7

Imagine that you are in Hong Kong reading the morning news and you notice a headline about a double murder that took place overnight. A suspect is in custody. Which of the following headlines is most likely to accompany the story?
a. Dispute over Gambling Debt Ends in Murder
b. Crazed Murderer Slays Two
c. Homicidal Maniac Stalks Innocents
d. Bloodthirsty Mobster Takes Revenge

Jessica Reyna

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03:14

Problem 8

Ming is from China; Jason is from the United States. Both participate in an experiment in which they take a test, are given feedback, and are told that they did very well. They are then asked to make attributions for their performance. Based on cross-cultural research on the self-serving bias, you would expect that
a. Jason but not Ming will say that he succeeded due to his high ability.
b. neither Ming nor Jason will say that they succeeded due to their high ability.
c. both Ming and Jason will say that they succeeded due to their high ability.
d. Ming but not Jason will say that he succeeded due to his high ability

Prashant Bana

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02:28

Problem 9

Which of the following statements best describes cultural differences in the fundamental attribution error?
a. Members of collectivist cultures rarely make dispositional attributions.
b. Members of Western cultures rarely make dispositional attributions.
c. Members of collectivist cultures are more likely to go beyond dispositional explanations, considering information about the situation as well.
d. Members of Western cultures are more likely to go beyond dispositional explanations, considering information about the situation as well.

Akash M

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01:05

Problem 10

It is 10: 00 A.M. and Jamie, an American college student, is dragging himself to his next class to turn in a paper for which he pulled an all-nighter. Through a haze of exhaustion, on the way to class he sees a student slip and fall down. How would Jamie be most likely to interpret the cause of the student's behavior?
a. Jamie's attribution will most heavily be influenced by his own personality
b. Given what we know about Jamie's current cognitive capacity and cultural background, he will likely assume that the student fell because he or she was clumsy.
c. Jamie would probably attribute the cause to the situation, such as the fact that it was raining and the sidewalks were slippery.
d. Jamie would be so tired that he would not make any causal attributions.

Erika Bustos

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