UOFC Psych 201 Exam 2 Questions With
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social facilitation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the performance ability when
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doing a task with people around you compared to when you are alone
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Social Reality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-When people selectively encode
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what is happening by what they expect and want to see
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confirmation bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a tendency to only pay
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attention to the information that confirms our beliefs
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Attribution Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Describes how one explains
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the cause of others behavior.
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Two ways: Dispositional and Situational
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Dispositional Causality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-cause found in the
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person- internal cause | |
Situational Causality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-cause found in the
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situation- external cause | |
, Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-how
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people have the tendency to overestimate ones dispositional factors
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and underestimate ones situational factors
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self-serving bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the tendency for people to
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take personal credit for success but blame failure on external factors
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Expectations and self-fulfilling prophecy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-When
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predictions about a future event modifies ones behavior to produce
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what is expected.
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behavioral confirmation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a type of self-fulfilling
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prophecy whereby people's social expectations lead them to behave in
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ways that cause others to confirm their expectations
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Predjudice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Negative feelings about a target due
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to the group that the target belongs to.
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Discrimination - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The unjustified treatment of
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people based on prejudice. | | |
social categorization - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-when people organize
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their social groups by categorizing themselves and others into groups
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Correct Answers
social facilitation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the performance ability when
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doing a task with people around you compared to when you are alone
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Social Reality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-When people selectively encode
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what is happening by what they expect and want to see
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confirmation bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a tendency to only pay
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attention to the information that confirms our beliefs
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Attribution Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Describes how one explains
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the cause of others behavior.
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Two ways: Dispositional and Situational
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Dispositional Causality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-cause found in the
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person- internal cause | |
Situational Causality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-cause found in the
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situation- external cause | |
, Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-how
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people have the tendency to overestimate ones dispositional factors
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and underestimate ones situational factors
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self-serving bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the tendency for people to
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take personal credit for success but blame failure on external factors
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Expectations and self-fulfilling prophecy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-When
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predictions about a future event modifies ones behavior to produce
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what is expected.
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behavioral confirmation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a type of self-fulfilling
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prophecy whereby people's social expectations lead them to behave in
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ways that cause others to confirm their expectations
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Predjudice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Negative feelings about a target due
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to the group that the target belongs to.
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Discrimination - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The unjustified treatment of
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people based on prejudice. | | |
social categorization - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-when people organize
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their social groups by categorizing themselves and others into groups
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