How is attribution influenced by consensus, consistency, and distinctiveness?
What will be an ideal response?
The answer should begin by defining attribution. Next, it should describe the principles
of consensus, consistency, and distinctiveness and how they function in attribution. The answer
should point out that we tend to make situational attributions when consensus and distinctiveness
are high and consistency is low and attributionsof dispositional causality when consensus and
distinctiveness are low and consistency is high.
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Whether or not someone seems responsible for her own predicament is more influential on helping behavior
a. in individualistic cultures. b. when the target in need of help is male. c. when the person in need of help is a family member. d. in collectivist cultures.
The active search for stimuli that will evoke the appropriate memory is called
a. remembering. b. retrieval. c. recovery. d. recollection. e. rehearsal.
The more preschoolers play with same-sex playmates, the
A) greater their tolerance for "gender-inappropriate" activities. B) more their behavior becomes gender typed. C) more peers criticize them. D) greater their opportunities for cross-gender play.
Which of the following recommendations have social psychologists made to the legal profession?
a. The police should try as hard as they can to get suspects to confess to a crime, because if the suspects confess, they are surely guilty. b. Lawyers should present witnesses in the sequence they think will have the greatest impact, even if this means that events of the case are described out of order. c. The police should videotape all interrogations and make sure that the camera angle shows both the interrogator and the suspect. d. Hypnosis is a useful way for producing accurate eyewitness memories.