According to Gilbert's two-step model of social perception, distraction should make the fundamental attribution error more likely to happen because it
a. discourages personal attributions, but has little effect on situational attributions.
b. inhibits perceivers from using distinctiveness information, but allows them to take consistency information intoaccount
c. does not interfere with the automatic process of making personal attributions, but does interfere with the moredifficult process of making adjustments for situational factors.
d. changes the interrelationship between the figure and the background in social perception.
c
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Maurer and Werker (2014) compared infants and adults in their perceptions of the two ways of saying the "t" sound in Hindi. Hindi speakers recognize the difference between these two sounds. To English-speaking adults, however, they both sound like "t," and the adults do not hear the difference. The researchers found that ______.
A. English-learning infants were not able to discriminate between the two "t" sounds because of prenatal exposure to English B. Hindi-learning babies did not learn the distinction between the two "t" sounds until they were capable of their own speech C. there were no differences between the English- and Hindi-learning babies until they reached roughly 18 months of age D. both sets of babies could reliably distinguish the two "t" sounds at 6 months of age, but at 10 months of age only the Hindi-learning babies could do so
Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that preoperational children are at great risk when crossing busy streets?
a. Preoperational children tend to be egocentric. b. Preoperational children lack object permanence. c. Younger children cannot understand why the driver of a car can't see them if they can see the car. d. Children under the age of seven cannot consistently judge speeds and distances of oncoming cars.
People who feel isolated from a particular group are experiencing ________ exclusion
a) empathic b) social c) communal d) interpersonal
The idea that natural selection favors behaviors that help a genetic relative is known as
a. kin selection. b. familial selection. c. kinship bias. d. familial reciprocity.