Deck 3: Social Beliefs and Judgments

Question 1

Describe how behavioral confirmation can take place in a classroom.

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

Provide examples of both the availability heuristic and the representativeness heuristic.

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Implicit thinking that is effortless, habitual, and without awareness is called

A) controlled processing.
B) intentional processing.
C) automatic processing.
D) internal processing.

Answer 3

automatic processing.

Question 4

Although travelers in the United States are more likely to die in an automobile crash than on an airplane trip covering the same distance, people often assume that flying is more dangerous than driving. What type of heuristic are people using when they make this assumption?

A) the representativeness heuristic
B) the vividness heuristic
C) the matching heuristic
D) the availability heuristic

Question 5

A fellow student is consistently late for class. You assume this is because he is lazy and disorganized. What type of attribution are you making in this situation?

A) a dispositional attribution
B) a situational attribution
C) a motivational attribution
D) an illusory attribution

Question 6

Both you and your friend are late for a meeting. How would the attribution theory predict your behavior and your friend's?

Question 7

Describe an example of how the actor-observer difference could play a role in racist beliefs.

Question 8

Describe the strengths and the weaknesses of both controlled processing and automatic processing.

Question 9

What is illusory thinking? What are its effects?

Question 10

Provide an example of the overconfidence phenomenon in the workplace.

Question 11

Explain how misattribution can play a role in sexual harassment.