PSYC 201 Quiz 2 And 3 – UIUC Study
Guide Questions 100% Well Answered.
Chapter 5 - Social Attribution: Explaining Behavior - Answer RAWR!
Attribution Theory - Answer a set of concepts explaining how people assign causes to the
events around them and the effects of people's casual assessments
Causal Attribution - Answer linking an event to a cause, such as inferring that a personality
trait is responsible for a behavior
Explanatory Style - Answer a person's habitual way of explaining events, typically assessed
along three dimensions: internal/external, stable/unstable, and global/specific
Covariation Principle - Answer the idea that behavior should be attributed to potential causes
that occur along with the observed behavior
Consensus - Answer a type of covariation information: what most people would do in a given
situation; that is, whether most people would behave that way
Distinctiveness - Answer a type of covariation information: what an individual does in
different situations; that is, whether the behavior is unique to a particular situation, or occurs in
all situations
Consistency - Answer a type of covariation information: what an individual does in a given
situation on different occasions; that is, whether next time, under the same circumstances, the
person would behave the same or differently
Discounting Principle - Answer the idea that people should assign reduced weight to a
particular cause of behavior if other plausible causes might have produced it
Augmentation Principle - Answer the idea that people should assign greater weight to a
particular cause of behavior if other causes are present that normally would produce a different
outcome
Counterfactual Thoughts - Answer thoughts of what might have, could have, or should have
happened "if only" something had occurred differently
, Emotional Amplification - Answer An increase in an emotional reaction to an event that is
proportional to how easy it is to imagine the event not happening
Self-Serving Attribution Bias - Answer the tendency to attribute failure and other bad events
to external circumstances, and to attirbute success and other good events to oneself
Fundamental Attribution Error - Answer the failure to recognize the importance of situational
influences on behavior, and the corresponding tendency to overemphasize the importance of
dispositions on behavior
Just World Hypothesis - Answer the belief that people get what they deserve in life and
deserve what they get
Actor-Observer Difference - Answer a difference in attribution based on who is making the
casual assessment: the actor (who is relatively inclined to make situational attributions) or the
observer (who is relatively inclined to make dispositional attributions)
Social Class - Answer the amount of wealth, education, and occupational prestige individuals
and their families have
Chapter 6 - Emotion - Answer RAWR!
Emotion - Answer a brief, specific response, both psychological and physiological, that helps
people meet goals, including social goals
Appraisal Process - Answer a component of emotion; patterns of construal for evaluating
events and objects in the environment based on their relation to current goals
Emotion Accent - Answer a specific way people from different cultures express a particular
emotion
Focal Emotion - Answer an emotion that is especially common within a particular culture
Display Rule - Answer a culturally specific rule that governs how, when, and to whom people
express emotion
Emotional Intelligence - Answer the ability to express, recognize, and use emotions well
within social interactions
Guide Questions 100% Well Answered.
Chapter 5 - Social Attribution: Explaining Behavior - Answer RAWR!
Attribution Theory - Answer a set of concepts explaining how people assign causes to the
events around them and the effects of people's casual assessments
Causal Attribution - Answer linking an event to a cause, such as inferring that a personality
trait is responsible for a behavior
Explanatory Style - Answer a person's habitual way of explaining events, typically assessed
along three dimensions: internal/external, stable/unstable, and global/specific
Covariation Principle - Answer the idea that behavior should be attributed to potential causes
that occur along with the observed behavior
Consensus - Answer a type of covariation information: what most people would do in a given
situation; that is, whether most people would behave that way
Distinctiveness - Answer a type of covariation information: what an individual does in
different situations; that is, whether the behavior is unique to a particular situation, or occurs in
all situations
Consistency - Answer a type of covariation information: what an individual does in a given
situation on different occasions; that is, whether next time, under the same circumstances, the
person would behave the same or differently
Discounting Principle - Answer the idea that people should assign reduced weight to a
particular cause of behavior if other plausible causes might have produced it
Augmentation Principle - Answer the idea that people should assign greater weight to a
particular cause of behavior if other causes are present that normally would produce a different
outcome
Counterfactual Thoughts - Answer thoughts of what might have, could have, or should have
happened "if only" something had occurred differently
, Emotional Amplification - Answer An increase in an emotional reaction to an event that is
proportional to how easy it is to imagine the event not happening
Self-Serving Attribution Bias - Answer the tendency to attribute failure and other bad events
to external circumstances, and to attirbute success and other good events to oneself
Fundamental Attribution Error - Answer the failure to recognize the importance of situational
influences on behavior, and the corresponding tendency to overemphasize the importance of
dispositions on behavior
Just World Hypothesis - Answer the belief that people get what they deserve in life and
deserve what they get
Actor-Observer Difference - Answer a difference in attribution based on who is making the
casual assessment: the actor (who is relatively inclined to make situational attributions) or the
observer (who is relatively inclined to make dispositional attributions)
Social Class - Answer the amount of wealth, education, and occupational prestige individuals
and their families have
Chapter 6 - Emotion - Answer RAWR!
Emotion - Answer a brief, specific response, both psychological and physiological, that helps
people meet goals, including social goals
Appraisal Process - Answer a component of emotion; patterns of construal for evaluating
events and objects in the environment based on their relation to current goals
Emotion Accent - Answer a specific way people from different cultures express a particular
emotion
Focal Emotion - Answer an emotion that is especially common within a particular culture
Display Rule - Answer a culturally specific rule that governs how, when, and to whom people
express emotion
Emotional Intelligence - Answer the ability to express, recognize, and use emotions well
within social interactions
