Assignment 3 Fall 2023 psych
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P102 Assignment 3
Short Answer Questions:
1.
What is a “self-fulfilling prophecy?”
A self-fulfilling prophecy is our beliefs or expectations about a person that can lead us to believe in ways that elicit behavior consistent with our belief. This makes the expectation come true.
2.
Attribution theory says that we use three kinds of information when making an attribution
about the cause of someone’s behavior, consistency, consensus, and distinctiveness. What
is distinctiveness
information?
Distinctiveness information refers to the extent to which an individual’s behavior changes depending on the situation or circumstance they are in. 3.
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error? Fundamental attribution error is the bias to make an internal attribution when judging the cause of behavior of others.
4.
Give an example of something happening to you (or you doing something) that caused “cognitive dissonance.” If I value my health and healthy eating but regularly partake in eating high-calorie fast food I would be experiencing cognitive dissonance because there is a conflict between the values and actions.
5.
5. Using the “Triangle” view of love , what combination results in Fatuous Love?
Passion + commitment results in fatuous love.
Multiple choice (Highlight or Bold face your answer)
6.
Susan is always nervous when she has to meet with her boss. In other
situations Susan is very relaxed and at ease. Most of Susan’s fellow workers aren’t nervous when they meet with the boss. According to Attribution
Theory outlined in class, Susan's behavior has:
A. high consistency, low distinctiveness, low consensus
B. low consistency, high distinctiveness, high consensus
C. low consistency, low distinctiveness, high consensus
D. high consistency, high distinctiveness, low consensus
7.
Romantic love is thought to be comprised of:
A. passion but not intimacy or commitment
B. intimacy and passion but no commitment
C. intimacy but no passion or commitment
D. commitment and passion but no intimacy
8.
Amy met Henry, who is average height, at a talk given by a politician. She heard Henry criticizing the politician and expressing
his own views, which she agreed with entirely. She found herself attracted to Henry even though she usually likes really tall guys. This demonstrates the strong influence of ______________ in interpersonal attraction,
A. proximity
B. similarity
C. physical attractiveness
D. reciprocity
9.
A judgment that one makes about the cause of a person's behavior is called a(n):
A. attitude.
B. person schema.
C. attribution.
D. consensus.
10.
Bob listened carefully to a TV add trying to convince viewers to vote in a particular way at an upcoming election. He was using:
A.
Automatic processing
B.
Impression formation
C.
Controlled processing
D.
None of the above
11.
Mary, who is generally very warm and friendly, became very irate when someone pushed a friend of hers into a snow bank. Jerry, who knows Mary, explained to another onlooker that Mary was pissed off because the idiot to tried to harm her friend. Jerry ________
about Mary’s behavior
A.
made an internal attribution
B.
made an external attribution
C.
made the fundamental attribution error
D.
made a self-fulfilling prophecy about Mary’s behavior
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