When we perform well, we typically attribute our success to___________.

Related Mcqs:

1. In evolutionary theory, __________________ refers to the reproductive success of an individual organism relative to the average reproductive success in the population.

   A. natural selection
   B. gene flow
   C. adaptation
   D. fitness

2. Attributing one’s success on an exam to one’s intelligence and one’s failure to the unfairness of the test is an example of_________?

   A. a confirmation bias
   B. the fundamental attributional error
   C. the actor- observer attribution
   D. a defensive attribution
   E. a self- serving bias

3. A person who is nine feet tall and has very large hands and feet and a protecting jaw can attribute his physiological abnormality to an overactive ___________?

   A. thyroid gland
   B. parathyroid gland
   C. adrenal gland
   D. pituitary gland

4. Although Shawn felt terribly depressed when he began psychotherapy, he was much happier by the time he had completed therapy. I would be reasonable to attribute some of his improvement to:

   A. therapeutic touch.
   B. regression toward the mean
   C. the double – blind technique
   D. transference

5. Athletes often attribute their losses to bad officiating. This best illustrates:

   A. learned helplessness
   B. the spotlight effect
   C. self-serving bias
   D. an Electra complex

6. Which test of memory typically provides the fewest retrieval cues?

   A. recognition
   B. recall
   C. relearning
   D. rehearsal

7. Which one of the following statements are true of the Wason selection, or four-card problem (Wason,1966)?
   1. The Wason Selection Task is a good task because it produces identical results in concrete and abstract forms
   2. In general, concrete versions of the task are more difficult to think about than uncluttered abstract versions.
   3. Although the task is one of pure reasoning some concrete versions are easier because of how we think in certain social situations.
   4. People typically pick one card correctly, but pick an inappropriate one as the second choice in the original version of the task.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 3 & 4
   C. 1 & 4
   D. 2 & 3

8. The steady, rapid responding of a person playing a slot machine is an example of the pattern of responding typically generated on a_______schedule.

   A. Fixed-ratio
   B. variable-ratio
   C. Fixed-interval
   D. variable-interval

9. When do people with BIID typically report that they first started perceiving themselves as amputees?

   A. In early childhood
   B. At puberty
   C. After a head injury
   D. During adolescence

10. Deaf people who use sign language typically:

    A. have a smaller corpus callosum than hearing persons
    B. demonstrate greater mathematical competence than hearing persons
    C. process language in their left cerebral hemisphere
    D. recognize facial expressions of emotion with their left rather than their right cerebral hemisphere