Lecture #12

Question 1

The ____________________________________ _______________________________ ____________________________ is our tendency to overestimate the significance of dispositional factors and underestimate the significance of situational factors when explaining other people’s behavior.

Answer 1

Fundamental Attribution Error

Question 2

When we tend to perceive our own responses as representative of the general consensus, we make an attributional error called the ______________________________________ _______________________________________.

Answer 2

False consensus

Question 3

The _________________ ________________________________ __________________ is the human tendency to form positive attitudes about a person, place, or thing based solely on repeated exposure to that stimulus.

Answer 3

Mere Exposure Effect

Question 4

When we experience a mismatch between our attitudes and behaviors, our behaviors and our self-image, or between two attitudes, we enter into an unpleasant state called __________________________________ ____________________________________.

Answer 4

Cognitive Dissonance

Question 5

___________________________________ is a preconceived opinion, bias, or partiality toward a person or group, which may be favorable or unfavorable.

Answer 5

Prejudice

Question 6

_______________________________________ contribute to prejudice and are overgeneralizations of the characteristics of a group and therefore potentially false.

Answer 6

Stereotypes

Question 7

An __________________________________ _________________________________ is an apparent relation between two distinctive elements that does not actually exist.

Answer 7

Illusory correlation

Question 8

The _________________________________ _____________________________ is the human tendency not to intervene in a situation that requires our aid when other people are present.

Answer 8

Bystander effect

Question 9

____________________________ is a feeling of personal regard, intimacy, and esteem toward another person, while ____________________________ is all of those qualities plus a deep sense of attraction.

Answer 9

Liking and Loving

Question 10

The process by which we infer the causes of behavior (both our own and other people’s) is called ___________________________________.

Answer 10

Attribution