Quiz 14 Social Psychology
Attributions that maximize credit for our successes and minimize blame for our failures are called __ biases.
Self-serving
__ psychologists study how people influence one another.
Social
The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to internal causes and our own behavior to external causes is the __ effect.
Actor-observer
Helping others despite a cost to ourselves is called __ behavior.
Altruistic
A like or dislike that influences our behavior toward a person or thing is called a(n) __.
Attitude
A set of thought processes we use to assign causes to our own and other's behaviors is called __ .
Attribution
Altering one's behavior to match other people's behavior or expectations is called __.
Conformity
Of the three types of information we use to make attributions of someone's behavior, the one that compares the person's behavior with that of others is called __ information.
Consensus
The third type of information we use to make attributions of someone's behavior which looks at how the person's behavior varies from one time to the next is __ information.
Consistency
The fundamental attribution error is also called the __ bias.
Correspondence
Explanations of someone's behavior based on their individual characteristics are called internal or __ attributions.
Dispositional
The state of unpleasant tension that occurs when one's behavior is inconsistent with their attitude is called cognitive __ .
Dissonance
And the one that looks at how the person's behavior varies from one situation to another is called __.
Distinctiveness
The persuasion technique in which a modest request is made followed by a larger request is called the __ technique.
Foot-in-the-door
The __ hypothesis states that the main cause of anger and aggression are obstacles standing in the way of doing or obtaining something.
Frustration-aggression
The tendency to attribute one's behavior to internal causes at the expense of external ones is referred to as the __ attribution error.
Fundamental
The tendency to work less hard when sharing work with other people is called social __ .
Loafing
The study by Milgram was a study on __.
Obedience
The __ dilemma is when a person must choose between a cooperative act or a selfish act that might hurt others.
Prisoner's
Explanations of someone's behavior based on events in their immediate environment are called external or __ attributions.
Situational