Package Title: Testbank
Course Title: Real World Psychology
Chapter Number: Chapter 14
Question type: Multiple Choice
1) The study of how other people influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions is called
.
a) sociology
b) social science
c) social psychology
d) sociobehavioral psychology
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
2) Explanations that we provide for the causes of behaviors or events are referred to as
.
a) attributions
b) biases
c) assumptions
d) rationalizations
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
3) Kaitlyn believes that she failed her psychology exam because the teacher made the
questions on the test impossible to answer. Kaitlyn has just engaged in
.
a) impression management
,b) stereotaxic determination
c) attribution
d) person perception
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
1.3 Describe applications of psychology
Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking
2.3 Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving
4) According to social psychologists, why do people want to develop logical attributions
for behavior? It makes them feel .
a) safer and more in control
b) more in control and more intelligent
c) intelligent and safer
d) relaxed and more intelligent
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking
2.3 Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving
5) The two basic types of attributions suggest that behavior can be explained by internal
or external .
a) temperament, circumstances
b) dispositions, situations
c) personality, factors
d) traits, reality
Answer: b
,Difficulty: Medium
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
6) You and a friend are watching a ballgame. The batter misses. You believe this is
because the sun is setting and probably cast a glare in his eyes. Your friend believes this
is because the batter lacks talent. You made a attribution and your friend made a(n)
attribution.
a) circumstantial; personal
b) situational; dispositional
c) realistic; biased
d) correct; incorrect
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
1.3 Describe applications of psychology
Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking
2.3 Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving
7) The two major attribution mistakes people tend to make are .
a) the fundamental attribution error and the self-serving bias
b) situational attributions and dispositional attributions
c) the actor bias and the observer bias
d) stereotypes and biases
Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
, 8) Dr. Mitchell is a brilliant lecturer who strongly prefers reading to the company of
others. Despite being an introvert, however, she is very outgoing while she lectures. She
is so outgoing during lecturing that her students commit the in labeling her an
extrovert.
a) saliency bias
b) self-serving error
c) faulty judgment error
d) fundamental attribution error
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
1.3 Describe applications of psychology
Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking
2.3 Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving
9) We misjudge the causes of another person’s behavior because we overestimate
internal, personal factors and underestimate external, situational influences. This is called
.
a) delusional thinking
b) prejudice
c) the fundamental attribution error
d) the self-serving bias
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
1.3 Describe applications of psychology
Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking
2.3 Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving
Course Title: Real World Psychology
Chapter Number: Chapter 14
Question type: Multiple Choice
1) The study of how other people influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions is called
.
a) sociology
b) social science
c) social psychology
d) sociobehavioral psychology
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
2) Explanations that we provide for the causes of behaviors or events are referred to as
.
a) attributions
b) biases
c) assumptions
d) rationalizations
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
3) Kaitlyn believes that she failed her psychology exam because the teacher made the
questions on the test impossible to answer. Kaitlyn has just engaged in
.
a) impression management
,b) stereotaxic determination
c) attribution
d) person perception
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
1.3 Describe applications of psychology
Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking
2.3 Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving
4) According to social psychologists, why do people want to develop logical attributions
for behavior? It makes them feel .
a) safer and more in control
b) more in control and more intelligent
c) intelligent and safer
d) relaxed and more intelligent
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking
2.3 Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving
5) The two basic types of attributions suggest that behavior can be explained by internal
or external .
a) temperament, circumstances
b) dispositions, situations
c) personality, factors
d) traits, reality
Answer: b
,Difficulty: Medium
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
6) You and a friend are watching a ballgame. The batter misses. You believe this is
because the sun is setting and probably cast a glare in his eyes. Your friend believes this
is because the batter lacks talent. You made a attribution and your friend made a(n)
attribution.
a) circumstantial; personal
b) situational; dispositional
c) realistic; biased
d) correct; incorrect
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
1.3 Describe applications of psychology
Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking
2.3 Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving
7) The two major attribution mistakes people tend to make are .
a) the fundamental attribution error and the self-serving bias
b) situational attributions and dispositional attributions
c) the actor bias and the observer bias
d) stereotypes and biases
Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
, 8) Dr. Mitchell is a brilliant lecturer who strongly prefers reading to the company of
others. Despite being an introvert, however, she is very outgoing while she lectures. She
is so outgoing during lecturing that her students commit the in labeling her an
extrovert.
a) saliency bias
b) self-serving error
c) faulty judgment error
d) fundamental attribution error
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
1.3 Describe applications of psychology
Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking
2.3 Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving
9) We misjudge the causes of another person’s behavior because we overestimate
internal, personal factors and underestimate external, situational influences. This is called
.
a) delusional thinking
b) prejudice
c) the fundamental attribution error
d) the self-serving bias
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: Social Cognition
Learning Objective 14: 1.1: Explain the mental processes in attribution and attitudes.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
1.3 Describe applications of psychology
Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking
2.3 Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving
