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Judy is making _____ when she gets a bad grade on a test and says it is because the teacher didn't prepare her well enough, rather than admitting that she didn't study as much as she should have.

a situational attribution

Social influence refers to how people:

affect one another.

Sally did very poorly on her last math test. If her fifth-grade teacher concludes that Sally did poorly because she is unmotivated to do well in school, the teacher may be committing the:

fundamental attribution error.

Brian steps into an elevator full of people and begins to talk loudly on his cell phone. Brian might receive disapproving looks or comments from others on the elevator because:

he has violated the norm

Gladys, who is an accountant, often wonders why people are surprised when they find out that she is also a skydiving instructor on the weekends. The most obvious explanation is that people form cognitive schemas for different types of people and occupations. The use of these types of assumptions is called:

implicit personality theory.

How people affect one another is to social _____ as how people interpret others is to social _____.

influence; cognition

Dahlia is trying to make partner at one of the city's most prestigious law firms. It is unstated but understood that associates remain hard at work in the office until at least 8 each evening. This is an element of the firm's:

norms.

When Ruby stepped into the subway car, she quickly looked around and decided it would be safer to sit next to the middle-aged, well-dressed woman than to sit next to the man with bright orange hair and earrings. Ruby engaged in the process of:

person perception.

Walter is visiting New York City for the first time. He takes the subway and notices that, although people sit very close together on the subway, they do not make eye contact. This would likely be described by social psychologists as an example of behavior that conforms to:

social norms.

is the tendency to overestimate one's ability to have foreseen or predicted the outcome of an event.

Hindsight bias

Which researcher is studying social influence within social psychology?

Pavel, who is studying how one person's decision can impact other people's behavior

eople often commit the fundamental attribution error when they explain:

People often commit the fundamental attribution error when they explain

Dr. Scholz is reading an article describing research in which investigators examined how the presence of other people influenced participants' performance on a variety of tasks. Dr. Scholz is MOST likely reading the Journal of Research in _____ Psychology.

Social

Social cognition is to how people _____ one another, as social influence is to how people_____ one another.

interpret; affect

Yoko was late for work because traffic was particularly heavy. When she arrived at the office, she apologized to her boss, insisting that it was her fault for being late; if she had been less lazy, it wouldn't have happened. According to the Culture and Human Behavior box titled "Explaining Failure and Murder: Culture and Attributional Biases" in the text, blaming an accidental occurrence on an internal, personal disposition rather than on situational factors is called the:

self-effacing bias (modesty bias).

Dr. Perez is conducting research about how people form impressions of other people and how they interpret each other's behavior in a variety of situations. Dr. Perez is probably a(n) _____ psychologist.

social

When Mary Jane steps into the elevator, she immediately glances at the other passengers and decides that the gray-haired man with the beard must be a professor at the college. Mary Jane engaged in the process of:

social categorization.

Professor Henry's area of research involves the study of the mental processes people use to make sense of their social environment, including person perception, attribution, attitudes, and prejudice. Professor Henry works in the area of:

social cognition.

Marilyn thinks that the strict class attendance policy is an indication of her professor's overly controlling personality rather than a necessity dictated by the limited number of class sessions. Marilyn's judgment BEST illustrates:

the fundamental attribution error.

Rhys submits a major report to his boss ahead of the deadline. His boss assumes that Rhys is conscientious, rather than that he simply had more time than usual to devote to the assignment. This example illustrates

the fundamental attribution error.

Self-serving bias is the tendency to make internal attributions when one succeeds, but to make external attributions about one's behavior when one fails.

the self-serving bias.

The fundamental attribution error involves:

underestimating situational influences on another's behavior.

Social cognition refers to how people:

understand one another.