Social Psych Quiz 4 - Attribution And Attitudes

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    Tendency to attribute one's successful outcomes to internal causes and unsuccessful outcomes to external, situational causes.

    • Actor-observer discrepancy.
    • Bystander effect.
    • Self-serving bias.
    • Obedience.
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Social Psych Quiz 4 explores Attribution and Attitudes, assessing understanding of psychological concepts like blaming the victim, actor-observer discrepancy, self-serving bias, and cognitive dissonance through scenarios including Zimbardo's 1965 grasshopper experiment.

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  • 2. 

    The fried grasshoppers experiment was conducted to proof...

    • Prejudice.

    • Cognitive dissonance.

    Correct Answer
    A. Cognitive dissonance.
  • 3. 

    The tendency to attribute one's own behaviour to external, situational causes, and attributing the behaviour of others to internal, personal causes; especially when the outcome is likely to be negative.

    • Self-serving bias.

    • Foot-in-the-mouth technique.

    • Actor-observer discrepancy.

    • Foot-in-the-door technique.

    Correct Answer
    A. Actor-observer discrepancy.
  • 4. 

    The tendency of blaming an innocent person of misfortune for having somehow caused the problem or for not having taken steps to prevent it.

    • Just-world hypothesis.

    • Blaming the victim.

    • Fundamental attribution error.

    • Self-serving bias.

    Correct Answer
    A. Blaming the victim.
  • 5. 

    Who conducted the grasshopper experiment named in the previous question?

    • Zimbardo (1962)

    • Zimbardo (1972)

    • Zimbardo (1965)

    • Zimbardo (1970)

    Correct Answer
    A. Zimbardo (1965)

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