A car is tailgating Jerry. The car passes him dangerously. Jerry thinks, "What a jerk!" Jerry has ignored the possibility of the situation affecting the other driver. Jerry has committed the:
A. fundamental attribution error
B. primary attribution tendency
C. self-serving bias
D. central attribution error
Answer: A
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a. negative. b. positive. c. non-significant. d. It could be either a or b.
Regarding the social learning theorists' view of personality and gender, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Many "male" or "female" traits come from children's attempts to imitate a same-sex parent with whom they identify. b. We can learn without direct reward by observing and remembering the actions of others. c. The actions we choose to imitate depend on their outcomes. d. Children are labeled as boys or girls around age two and are encouraged to learn sex-appropriate behaviors from preschool on.
How does the partial report technique differ from the whole-report technique?
a. The partial report technique presents information for only a very brief time. b. The partial report technique presents each line individually. c. The partial report technique requires the subject to respond with all recalled information. d. The partial report technique requires the subject to respond with only certain items.
Based on children's ratings of who they like or dislike among their peers, researchers have described four categories of social status: ____
a. socially isolated, hostile, preppy, and smart children b. sub-average, average, above average, and three-deviations-from-the-mean children c. popular, rejected, neglected, and controversial children d. social, accepted, rejected, and unpopular