ch. 3

Catching yourself in the process of self-serving bias is most likely the result of __________

Monitoring

A judgment is a deduction that goes beyond what you know or assume to be a fact.

False

Empathy and person-centeredness are the same.

False

Attribution is the act of explaining why something happens or why a person acts a particular way.

True

Cultures can be made up of social communities that have their own unique values and practices.

True

According to Wood, the ability to feel with another person is called __________

empathy

Cultural influences in the United States tend to place high value on which of the following?

individualism

The active process of selecting, organizing and interpreting people, objects, events, situations, and activities is known as __________

perception

All of the following influence perceptions EXCEPT _________

social roles, cognitive abilities, cultural factors

Cognitive schemata include all of the following

stereotypes, scripts, personal constructs, prototypes