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The idea that chance events are subject to our influence describes


A) an illusory correlation.
B) an illusion of control.
C) a representative heuristic.
D) an availability heuristic.

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Your summer vacation was perhaps not an overwhelmingly positive event, but during the final week of August, you remember it as being a fantastic time. This is an example of


A) perseverance bias.
B) fundamental attribution error.
C) correspondence bias.
D) rosy retrospection.

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June is participating in a research study. When she arrives at the room the experimenter treats her poorly, ignoring her questions and answering her in a sharp tone. Steve participates in the same study. However, the experimenter acts in a very friendly manner toward him and goes out of his way to ensure Steve is comfortable at all times. Research on embodied cognition would predict


A) June will make more negative trait attributions about the researcher than Steve.
B) Steve will sign up for more future experiments than June.
C) June will think the temperature in the laboratory was colder than Steve.
D) Steve will be less likely to commit the fundamental attribution error than June.

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After telling Steve that you believe Brenda is very gossipy, Steve labels you as a gossip. This is an example of


A) the actor-observer difference.
B) the fundamental attribution error.
C) spontaneous trait inference.
D) belief perseverance.

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Joanna went over to a friend's house and rented the horror movie "Saw II." At 2:00 a.m., she awoke to a scratching sound at her window. Instead of thinking the noise is the result of a tree branch, she believed it was a serial killer trying to break in. This is an example of


A) priming.
B) attribution.
C) automatic processing.
D) controlled processing.

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Inferring that Cinderella is truly meek as she cowers in her oppressive home is an example of how we often


A) focus on internal traits.
B) ignore temporary moods.
C) forget about situational influences.
D) notice public and private behavior.

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Provide examples of both the availability and the representativeness heuristic.

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To retrieve a memory of where your date told you she wanted to go for dinner tomorrow, you need to activate one of the strands that leads to this memory, such as thinking about what types of food she does and does not like. This process is known as


A) belief perseverance.
B) reconstruction.
C) priming.
D) induction.

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According to the text, many men assume women are flattered by repeated requests for dates, which women more often see as harassing. This is an example of


A) arrogance.
B) a lack of intuition.
C) misattribution.
D) miscommunication.

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You are consistently late to your psychology class, because the biology class you have immediately before it is in a building on the other side of campus. You are concerned that your professor does not think you are a serious student because of your chronic tardiness, so you inform her of why you are always late. You can now safely conclude that your professor will make what type of attribution about your behavior?


A) motivational
B) dispositional
C) situational
D) internal

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You are consistently late to your psychology class, because the biology class you have immediately before it is in a building on the other side of campus. You are concerned that your professor does not think you are a serious student because of your chronic tardiness. If this were true, what type of attribution would your professor be making about your behavior?


A) motivational
B) dispositional
C) situational
D) external

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Your boss is always cranky. You assume this is because he has not had a raise in 10 years. What type of attribution are you making to explain his behavior?


A) motivational
B) dispositional
C) situational
D) personal

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What is illusory thinking and what are its effects?

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In a study conducted by Lassiter and his colleagues (2005) , participants observed a suspect confessing during a police interview. The results indicated that participants were more likely to perceive the confession as genuine when they viewed the confession


A) live.
B) through a two-way mirror.
C) with a camera focused on the suspect.
D) with a camera focused on the detective.

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According to the study by Ridge and Reber (2002) , if you are told that someone you have never met is attracted to you, you will likely


A) behave toward that person in a way that draws out their flirtatious behavior.
B) behave toward that person in a way that causes them to become shy and withdrawn.
C) feel little attraction to that person.
D) avoid that person if you can.

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Mental concepts or templates that intuitively guide our perceptions and interpretations are called


A) schemas.
B) hypotheses.
C) ethics.
D) theories.

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We are eager to verify our beliefs but less inclined to seek evidence that might disprove them. This phenomenon is called


A) the false uniqueness effect.
B) the false consensus effect.
C) the confirmation bias.
D) the overconfidence bias.

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In _____ cultures, people are less likely to perceive others in terms of personal dispositions.


A) individualistic
B) collectivistic
C) religious
D) secular

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Kruger and Dunning (1999) found that those students who scored lowest on tests of grammar and logic were _____ to overestimating their abilities.


A) least prone
B) most prone
C) sometimes prone
D) never prone

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The perception of a relationship where none actually exists, or the perception of a stronger relationship than actually exists, is called


A) a representative heuristic.
B) an availability heuristic.
C) an illusory correlation.
D) the overconfidence phenomenon.

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