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Question 71

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Which of the following is the most likely attribution to be made by someone in an unhappy marriage?

A) "She was late because of heavy traffic."
B) "She was late because she got tied up at the office."
C) "She was late because she doesn't care about me."
D) "She was late because it took so long to check out at the grocery store."

E) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

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Question 72

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You're not really convinced that you should see the latest Robin Williams movie that Julie is raving about because Julie raves about all of his movies. You've relied on

A) consensus information.
B) information integration.
C) correspondent information.
D) distinctiveness information.

E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

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Question 73

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The strategy of judging the likelihood of things by how well they match particular prototypes constitutes the _______________ heuristic.

When an experimenter asks people to vividly imagine a childhood incident in which they knocked over a punch bowl at a wedding, approximately _______ will later recall the event as something that actually happened.

Dottie has the illusory belief that there is a correlation between washing her car and the occurrence of rain in her area. According to research, Dottie is now much more likely to notice when

The fundamental attribution error involves the tendency to

Which of the following statements about social perceptions is false?

"If only I hadn't called Brian when I was in a bad mood," whines Jenny, "maybe we wouldn't have had that fight and broken up!" Jenny's statement most clearly reflects

One factor associated with the fundamental attribution error is that our perspectives or attributions change with time. When asked to make an attribution about our own personalities now, we are more likely to make a ______________ attribution, whereas when asked to describe our behaviour 5 years ago, we are more likely to make a _______________ attribution.

According to research by Nisbett and Ross (1980) , laboratory procedures _________ our intuitive powers.

Research on counterfactual thinking has revealed that

When baseball's rookie-of-the-year has a more ordinary second year, we shouldn't be surprised. This fact is easily explained by

How do attributions affect how we think about and relate to one another?

When peoples' memories and judgments change with their moods it is referred to as

When we behave badly we are more likely to attribute our behaviour to

University students who receive unusually high scores on their first biology test can reasonably expect to receive ____________ scores on their second biology test.

Darlene has a chance to go on a road trip with a bunch of her girlfriends for a few weeks. She decides that she can't afford to go away for that long. Instead, she chooses to stay home and work during that time to save money for the next trip. Later on, she thinks about making a different choice. According to the principles of counterfactual thinking, which choice is Darlene most likely to regret?

In a study of what's been called the "hostile media phenomenon," Valone, Ross, and Lepper (1985) showed pro-Israeli and pro-Arab students network news coverage of the 1982 killing of civilian refugees in Lebanon. Results showed

According to Kelley's theory of attributions, when our behaviour has a high degree of consensus with others and is distinctive, we would likely make ____________ attributions about the cause of behaviour. On the other hand, when behaviour has low consensus and low distinctiveness, we are likely to make _____________ attributions about the cause of behaviour.

After two years of intense publications (four per year) , Ela's research productivity drops to one published paper per year. What term best explains Ela's fewer publications after two years of intense productivity?