Exam 5: Social Attribution: Explaining Behavior

When we engage in a self-serving bias,we attribute failure and other bad events that happen to us to ________,but we attribute success and other good events to ________.

Why is it inaccurate to say that people from interdependent cultures do NOT commit the fundamental attribution error?

The ________ dimension of explanatory style considers whether the causes of a particular behavior will be present again in the future.

According to the textbook,which of the following statements is INACCURATE?

Bo has repeatedly tried to find a job.After each unsuccessful attempt,he concludes that there is just something about him that will always get in the way of success in his life.Bo is displaying a ________ explanatory style.

People tend to make ________ attributions when levels of consensus and distinctiveness are low and consistency information is high.

Explain the covariation principle and the three types of covariation information that people use to understand the causes of everyday social behavior.

According to social psychological research on the covariation principle,which condition should prompt the highest expectations about the TechnoCool dance club?

The just world hypothesis,believing that good things happen to good people,is used to explain which psychological phenomenon?

The ________ holds that people have a tendency to believe that another person's behavior is due to his or her disposition rather than the situation in which that person finds him- or herself.

Students are often surprised to learn about the results of the Milgram study,in which the majority of participants were willing to administer potentially life threatening electric shocks to someone because the experimenter urged them on.When thinking about these results,students often assume that only a bad person would do such a thing,despite the fact that MOST of the study participants were willing to administer the shocks.Such consensus seems to suggest that it was the powerful situation that brought about the participants' behavior.In this way,students' attributions for the participants' behavior in the Milgram study seem to be more consistent with the ________ than the ________.

Travis thinks that Roscoe is a terrible person.So when Travis finds out that Roscoe's business failed and Roscoe's wife left him,Travis's reaction is consistent with the just world hypothesis.He therefore thinks to himself,

Challenge the position that people within the United States are all equally likely to commit the fundamental attribution error.What aspects of American identity relate to this tendency?

Recall that Wells and Gavanski (1989)asked study participants to read a story about a woman who went to lunch with her boss to celebrate a promotion.According to the story,the boss ordered a dish for the woman that contained wine.Unfortunately,the woman was so allergic to wine that she died.The researchers were interested in how participants would respond to additional information about the boss's behavior.Results of this study showed that participants who thought the

According to the augmentation principle,which action is most likely to be attributed to the personality of the actor?

How does social class relate to causal attribution?

Pablo and Celia ask a job applicant to talk about her background for a few minutes.Before doing so,the applicant says she has bad allergies,so she might sniffle and speak with a shaky voice.The applicant then talks about herself,and she does,in fact,sniffle and speak with a shaky voice.While the applicant talks,Pablo is attentive.But Celia is tired and her mind wanders a bit.Attribution research suggests that,compared with Pablo,Celia is more likely to

When it comes to causal attributions,what is true of the distinction between people from interdependent and independent cultures?

Pat is a lower-class man who works at a tire factory for a living.When trying to make sense of why a coworker is late to work,Pat is likely to make which kind of attribution?

Last year,when Laura got a poor performance review from her supervisor,she told herself that the rating system was unfair and her boss had it in for her.When her review was glowing this year,Laura took it as a signal that she is both smart and capable.Laura's causal attributions are most consistent with which of the following?