A. Role schemes
B. Person schemas
C. Actor-observer effects
D. Stereotypes
E. Biases
Attitudes, Attributions And Social Cognition
Attitudes, Attributions And Social Cognition
A. This strength of the self-serving bias is the same across cultures
B. We tend to attribute our success to internal factors and our failure to external factors
C. The usual explanation for the self-serving bias relates to cognitive factors.
D. Attributing success to external causes has been referred has been referred to as the self-enhancing bias.
A. Schemas preserve cognitive resources
B. Schemas facilitate recall of information
C. Schemas are based on exopectations and prior experience
D. Schemas can cue emotions
E. All of the above
A. Well development schemas change readily when faced with disconfirming evidence.
B. The idea of exceptions to the rule is consistent with the sub-typing model model of stereotype change.
C. In the book-keeping model disconfirming instances of the stereotype are relegated to ‘exceptional’ sub-categories largely intact.
D. The conversion model proposes that there is fine-tuning of a schema with each new piece of information.
A. Automatic; controlled
B. Controlled; automatic
C. Schematic; revised
D. Subtype; evaluative
A. We usually employ categorians with little conscious effort.
B. Research on categorization stems from the pioneering work of cognitive scientist Eleanor Rosch and her colleagues.
C. The categorization of events is a more complex process than that of inanimate objects.
D. The instances in a social category that represent the category as a whole are referred to as exemplars.
A. UAE underlies all the other biases
B. UAE refers to attributional biases that occur at the group level
C. UAE only applies to ingroups
D. UAE refers to attributional biases that occur the individual level
E. a and b
A. High consistency
B. Low distinctiveness
C. High consensus
D. a,b and c
E. a and b
A. The fundamental attribution error.
B. The actor-observer effect.
C. The self-serving bias.
D. The critical attribution error.
A. Attention stage
B. Retention stage
C. Yielding stage
D. Fielding stage
