Exam 3: Attribution and Social Explanation

Which of the following is NOT a major theory of attribution?

The term 'external attribution' is also termed ________ in Heider's theory.

'The economy' as an explanation for someone being made redundant is a(n) ________ explanation ________ of the attributional style questionnaire (ASQ).

An example of a group-enhancing bias is:

Arthur never goes to church, and therefore knows that he is not interested in religion. This is an example of the logic underlying:

When we underestimate the role of context in explaining someone else's behaviour we:

According to the actor-observer effect, observers tend to attribute the actor's actions to ________ factors.

According to Schachter's theory of emotional lability, an emotion is based on the label that people give it. Consequently, we should be able to:

Making attributions in the formation stage of a close relationship is important (Harvey, 1987) because it:

Which of the following is NOT a self-serving bias?

Heider and Simmel's (1994) ingenious experiment in which people who were asked to describe the movement of abstract geometric figures described them as if they were humans with intentions to act in certain ways demonstrates that:

Hugo claims 'I am an A grade student! The only reason I get Cs is because the lecturer is boring.' You smile wryly at Hugo's:

Jemima knew little about photography but enrolled in a beginner's course to see what it was all about. She was praised for her first effort, but thought this was just a bit of luck, making an ________ attribution. When she continued to be praised for her later work she concluded that anyone could be a really good photographer. This time her attribution was ________.

The false consensus effect is stronger:

Using what you know about non-common effects and outcome bias, consider the following example: Josh has to choose between behaviour A and behaviour B. Behaviour A produces only terror and behaviour B produces only joy. Can we tell anything about Josh's disposition based on his chosen behaviour?

The idea that al-Qaeda are behind almost every world catastrophe you can think of is an example of:

The fundamental attribution error, the actor-observer effect, and the false consensus effect are types of:

Ian has just heard how a mate's younger sister is drop-dead beautiful. He traces the origin of the account through the entire rugby team, and finds that the (fourteenth!) version he has just been given, as compared with the original version, is:

Elaine has just screamed, smacking her daughter's fingers because the adventurous one-year-old has just poked a metal fork into a power outlet. Because consistency information is low, you would probably not think of Elaine as a violent person. This refers to:

An ethnocentric intergroup attribution is: