#1
What is social perception?
The process of understanding others in a social context
The ability to perceive one's own emotions
The process of perceiving physical objects
The process of perceiving oneself in social situations
#2
Which of the following is NOT a factor influencing social perception?
Cultural background
Personality traits
Physical attractiveness
Body language
#3
Which of the following is an example of an external attribution?
Believing someone is late because they are irresponsible
Believing someone is late because of heavy traffic
Believing someone is late because they are always tardy
Believing someone is late because they had a bad morning
#4
What is meant by the term 'attribution' in social psychology?
The process of perceiving physical objects
The process of assigning causes to behavior
The process of understanding others in a social context
The process of perceiving oneself in social situations
#5
Which of the following is an example of an internal attribution?
Believing someone failed an exam because the questions were too difficult
Believing someone failed an exam because they did not study enough
Believing someone failed an exam because they had a bad day
Believing someone failed an exam because the teacher is unfair
#6
What is meant by the term 'social perception'?
The process of understanding others in a social context
The process of perceiving physical objects
The ability to perceive one's own emotions
The process of perceiving oneself in social situations
#7
What is the fundamental attribution error?
The tendency to overestimate the influence of situational factors on others' behavior
The tendency to underestimate the influence of situational factors on others' behavior
The tendency to attribute one's own behavior to internal factors and others' behavior to situational factors
The tendency to attribute others' behavior to internal factors
#8
Which theory suggests that people infer the causes of others' behavior in order to understand and explain it?
Social learning theory
Social cognitive theory
Attribution theory
Social identity theory
#9
What is the halo effect in social perception?
The tendency to judge others based on our past experiences with them
The tendency to judge others based on a single trait or characteristic
The tendency for first impressions to heavily influence our overall perception of a person
The tendency to attribute positive qualities to physically attractive people
#10
Which term refers to the tendency to attribute our own successes to internal factors and our failures to external factors?
Self-serving bias
Fundamental attribution error
Confirmation bias
False consensus effect
#11
What is the false consensus effect?
The tendency to believe that others think and behave similarly to us
The tendency to attribute others' behavior to internal factors
The tendency to underestimate the influence of situational factors on others' behavior
The tendency to overestimate the influence of situational factors on others' behavior
#12
Which theory suggests that people tend to attribute others' behavior to internal characteristics and ignore situational factors?
Attribution theory
Social cognitive theory
Social identity theory
Actor-observer bias
#13
According to Kelley's covariation model, which of the following is NOT a factor used in making attributions?
Consensus
Distinctiveness
Consistency
Complementarity
#14
In the context of social perception, what does the term 'primacy effect' refer to?
The tendency to remember information at the beginning of a list more effectively
The tendency to form impressions of others based on the first information we receive about them
The tendency to rely on the most recent information when making judgments
The tendency to form impressions of others based on their most prominent characteristics
#15
According to Fritz Heider's attribution theory, what are the two main types of attributions people make?
Situational and dispositional
External and internal
Personal and environmental
Fundamental and situational
#16
According to Jones and Davis's correspondent inference theory, which factor influences whether we make an internal or external attribution?
Consistency
Distinctiveness
Consensus
Fundamental attribution error
#17
What is meant by the term 'attributional ambiguity'?
The difficulty in discerning whether one's actions will be positively or negatively evaluated by others
The tendency to attribute ambiguous behavior to internal factors
The tendency to avoid making attributions about others' behavior
The tendency to attribute one's own behavior to situational factors
#18
In the context of social perception, what is 'attributional complexity'?
The tendency to attribute others' behavior to internal factors
The tendency to perceive situational influences on behavior
The tendency to make complex attributions about others' behavior
The tendency to ignore situational factors when making attributions