Mary sees Greta trip while walking down an outside flight of steps, and she thinks to herself, "What a clumsy person!" Five minutes later, though, Mary trips on the same flight of steps, and says to an onlooker, "It's very icy today!"
This is an illustration of the ________. a) actor-observer effect
b) self-serving bias effect
c) blame avoidance principle
d) categorization principle
a
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Bill concludes that he is 95% confident in his conclusion that the typical university student studies between 2 and 4 hours a day. This is an example of a(n)
a. point estimate. b. sample estimate. c. inaccurate estimate. d. interval estimate.
According to Freud, the moral element of personality is called the
A. ego. B. superid. C. superego. D. id.
In children under 1o years of age born prematurely:
a. Thresholds for global motion are likely to be worse affected that those for global form b. Thresholds for global form are likely to be worse affected that those for global motion c. Thresholds for global motion and global form are likely to be similar d. Thresholds for biological motion are likely to be normal
In Festinger's classic experiment, the college students who originally said the task was boring but changed their attitude about the boring task and said "it was interesting" were the ones that
a. had scored high in ethnocentrism. b. had succumbed to groupthink. c. were paid $20. d. were paid $1.