Jennifer is a student at UCLA. When asked to describe the average UCLA student, she says it is almost impossible to do so because "there are so many different kinds of people at UCLA; the diversity is really amazing." By contrast, when asked to describe the average USC student, Jennifer says: "That's easy; they're all almost exactly the same." Social psychologists would say that Jennifer is
displaying what is known as the ____.
a. discontinuity effect
b. scapegoat effect
c. minimal group effect
d. outgroup homogeneity bias
D
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How can a father's habits affect the health of an unborn child during prenatal development?
A. A father's nicotine intake produces DNA changes that are passed to the fetus on chromosome 23. B. A father's use of barbiturates interacts with a mother's use of marijuana, resulting in missing chromosomes on a child's 8th pair. C. A father's use of alcohol or illegal drugs can affect his sperm, which in turn may lead to chromosomal damage that affects the fetus. D. A father's use of crack cocaine causes sperm mutations, such that two sperm are capable of fertilizing a single ovum.
You are sitting in an arena watching the end of a very close basketball game, and you fail to notice that one of the referees has removed his shirt. This an example of
a. a visual illusion. b. inattentional blindness. c. retinal disparity. d. attentional blindness
According to the "fundamental attribution error," we tend to overemphasize _______ factors as causes of our own behavior and overemphasize _______ factors as causes of the behavior of other people.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
__________ __________ are characterized by persistent, gross disturbances in eating patterns
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word