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| The first to describe how people make attributions |
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| What is social psychology? |
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| What is the branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others? |
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| What is person perception? |
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| What is the process of forming impressions of others? |
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| True/False: Studies show attractive people hold our attention longer than unattractive people? |
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| True/False: People tend to ascribe undesirable personality characteristics to those who are good looking? |
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| True/False: Little correlation exists between attractiveness and personality traits? |
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| True/False: People tend to view attractive people as having more competence than unattractive people? |
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| True/False: Good looks have a significant impact on perceptions of honesty and integrity? |
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| How long does it take to draw inferences from facial features? |
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| What are widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group? |
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| Sex, age, occupation, and ethnic group |
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| True/False: If someone's behavior is ambiguous, people are likely to interpret what they see in a way that is inconsistent with their expectations? |
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| False: consistent with their expectations |
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| What are illusory correlations? |
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| What occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association between social traits than they have actually seen? |
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| What is the group that one belongs to and identifies with? |
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| What is a group that one does not belong to or identify with? |
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| What are inferences that people draw about the causes of events, others' behavior, and their own behavior? |
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| For what reason, mainly, do people make attributions? |
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| Because they have a strong need to understand their experience |
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| What are internal attributions? |
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| What is to ascribe the causes of behavior to personal dispositions, traits, abilities, and feelings? |
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| What are external attributions? |
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| What is to ascribe the causes of behavior to situational demands and environmental constraints? |
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| Bernard Weiner's conclusions concerning the attributions people make |
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| People often focus on the stability of the causes underlying behavior. |
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| What are positive or negative evaluations of objects of thought? |
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| What is the bystander effect? |
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| What is: People are less likely to provide needed help when they are in groups than when they are alone? |
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| Concerning factors of persuasion: What is channel? |
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| What is the medium through which the message is sent? |
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| What is cognitive dissonance? |
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| What is when related cognitions are inconsistent - that is, when they contradict each other? |
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| What involves putting group goals ahead of personal goals and defining one's identity in terms of the groups one belongs to? |
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| What is an intent to maintain a relationship in spite of the difficulties and costs that may arise? |
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| What is companionate love? |
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| What is the warm, trusting, tolerant affection for another whose life is deeply intertwined with one's own? |
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| What occurs when people yield to real or imagined social pressure? |
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| What is the defensive attribution? |
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| What is a tendency to blame victims for their misfortune, so that one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way? |
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| What is that which involves behaving differently, usually unfairly, toward the members of a group? |
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| What is the foot-in-the-door technique? |
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| What is that which involves getting people to agree to a small request to increase the chances that they will agree to a larger request later? |
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| What is the fundamental attribution error? |
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| What is that which refers to observers' bias in favor of internal attributions in explaining others' behavior? |
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