Download PSY 216 Study Guide Chapter 4 Test #4 According to Kelley, people

PSY 216
Study Guide
Chapter 4
Test #4
According to Kelley, people look for what kind of information to explain
behavior? What are Kelley’s 3 questions to assess for the likelihood of the
fundamental attribution occurring?
What is the term “cognitive miser” referring to?
What is the contrast effect and how does it occur? How does it affect
decisions?
What is priming?
How does framing the decision affect decisions about saving or losing
money?
What happened in Asch’s study on the primacy effect on impression
formation?
What is the primacy effect and how does it occur?
What is the dilution effect? How does dilution effect influence public
image?
What is one of the ways that we make sense of the amount of information
that comes at us?
What is the representative heuristic and how does it influence decision
making?
What is the availability heuristic and how does it occur?
What is the attitude heuristic and how does it affect our impression of a
person?
What is the halo effect?
What is the hindsight bias? How does it occur?
What are the conditions in which we are most likely to use heuristics?
What is the self-fulfilling prophecy and how does it develop/occur?
In Tajfel’s research, what did he discover occurred with subjects in the
groups they were assigned to with the meaningless labels? How did they
interact with others within vs. outside of their assigned group?
In Loftus’ study on the effect of viewing a film clip of a car accident and
then being asked some questions using the terms when the cars “hit” vs.
when they “smashed into” each other, what did she find the use of these
terms influenced the subjects to believe about the situation that was not
factual information?
Research on Loftus on eye-witness testimony has revealed what?
What is the confirmation bias?
What is a positive aspect of cognitive conservatism according to
Greenwald?
What is the condition under which attitudes are a fairly good predictor of
behavior?
What is the fundamental attribution error? How does it occur?
What is the actor-observer bias? How does it explain your own actions vs.
the actions of others?
What is self-serving bias? How does it affect explanations of behavior?
Video questions:
On the Judgment and Decision Making video clip with Kahneman and Tversky,
when planning a trip to the Middle East, more people are likely to be worried
about a terrorist attack or a traffic accident? This demonstrates which error in
judgment?
On the video clip on the fundamental attribution error, what are the 4 major
factors that Lee Ross states is involved in committing this error?
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