Exam 3: Ordinary Personology: Figuring Out Why People Do What They Do

When meeting new people, Dan always strives for an umambiguous, definitive understanding of their dispositions. As per the chapter, Dan is high in what?

The idea that people form rapid dispositional judgments by forming abstract representations is reflected in the phenomenon of what?

According to Heider, people's desire to see invariance in others refers to a desire to see what?

If explanation for a behavior has two possible causes, the role of either cause is diminished. What is this called?

What is the term for when people assign agency and experience to nonhuman objects?

What is nonverbal reciprocity?

What is the difference in beliefs between entity theorists and incremental theorists?

According to Pennebaker, Rimé, & Blankenship, across countries in the Northern Hemisphere, southerners, compared to northerners, are higher in what?

Hastorf & Cantril's classic study involving Dartmouth and Princeton football fans was a demonstration of what phenomenon?

What are some of the most frequently noted characteristics of person perception, that differ from mere object perception? Name at least 3.

What are the two factors in Schacter's theory of attributing emotion?

Charles loves to play the clarinet. One day, as a bonus, his friend Bob starts paying him $20 every week to hear him perform. After a few months, however, Bob decides to stop paying him, and subsequently Charles finds that he no longer enjoys playing the clarinet as much as he used to. What phenomenon can best explain this?

What is naïve realism?

Four phenomena describe the fact that people frequently attribute dispositions to explain other people's behavior: (1) the actor-observer effect, (2) the correspondence bias, (3) the fundamental attribution error, and (4) the under-use of consensus information, However, only one that states that people do not like to attribute dispositions to themselves. Which is it?

What is a need for closure, as it pertains to making sense of other people's actions?

Edward Jones' attribution theory, which focuses on how people try to decide that others' actions correspond to underlying intentions, is called

The consequences of some actions are generally regarded as more pleasant than those of others. The ones that are generally held in high regard are to said to be high in what?

What is the tendency for people to "overestimate the importance of dispositional factors relative to environmental" influences called?

The tendency for people to take personal credit for successes but blame the situation or other people for failures is called what?

What is ordinary personology?