Psychology 230Exam 2 Form A theory stat 35 Page 8 For and inferring what ther pe

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Psychology 230Exam 2 Form A theory stat 35 Page 8 For and inferring what ther pe come to know their own attitudes by looking at their own a. Cognitive Dissonance b. Justification c. Self-Perception d. Evolutionary 36. S elf-perception processes are most likely to occur when prior attitudes are a. weak. b. about extremely important matters. unambiguous. negative 37. If students in Prof. Young's class thought that Harvard students were all the same but thought of fellow Hunter students as individuals with a wide array of interests and experiences, this would best be an example of the a. Self-fulfilling Prophecy b. Social Identity Effect c. Minimal Group Paradigm d. Outgroup Homogeneity Effect 38. Believing that your friend scored higher on a test than you did because she is "naturally an example of making anattribution for your friend's behavior. a. internal b. attitudinal c. ethnocentric d. external 39. Believing that your high score on a Statistics exam was due to you studying well and your low score on a Sociology exam was due to the professor's poorly written questions could be an example of the a. Halo Effect b. Self-Fulfilling Prophecy c. Self-Serving Attributional Bias d. Self-Derogation Theory 40. When we try to categorize something by judging how similar it is to our conception of the typical member of the category we are using the a. retrieval, b. availability c. representativeness d. complementary heuristic

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35. The self perception theory states that people come to know of their own attitudes by looking at their own behavior and inferring what their attitudes must be.

36. Self-perception processes are most likely to occur when prior attitudes are ambiguous. That would lead to greater perception of own actions and derive meaning.

37. Thinking of own actions/behavior/perception as superior than that of another is self-fulfilling prophecy.

38. This is an internal attribution to the friend's behavior.

39. This is the self serving attributional bias wherein events are attributes internally or externally on the basis of own selfish interests/objectives.

40. This is the complementary heuristic where we place the opinion of another on the basis of how much is matches with our own to mentally represent it.

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