A panhandler approaches you and your friend for some money. When your friend gives him a dollar, you attribute your friend's behavior to her inherently generous spirit. Fritz Heider would say that you made a(n) ________ attribution
a. external
b. situational
c. dispositional
d. incorrect
Answer: c. dispositional
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According to Carl Jung, each person's own repressed thoughts that have been pushed out of awareness are contained in the __________.
A. persona B. personal unconscious C. archetype D. collective unconscious
Suppose that Anabelle often gets lonely, and seeks to stave off this loneliness by forming "relationships" with her favorite celebrities (e.g., reading about their lives in Us magazine). Research suggests that this strategy will probably be at least somewhat helpful
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following statements is a reason that adolescents, and sometimes adults, rely more on intuition than on analytical thinking?
They tend to be lazy in their thinking. Thinking analytically might reveal the shortcomings of their intuitive thinking. Intuitive thinking is superior to analytical thinking. Analytical thinking tends to support long-standing beliefs.
A theory of perception that holds that the way we see the world is determined partly
by how the mind works is called a _____ approach. (a) bottom-up (b) top-down (c) hypnopompic (d) Gestalt