Understanding Attributions in Social Situations
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Why might primates have evolved a large prefrontal cortex according to the text?

  • Developmental brain hypothesis
  • Mere-exposure phenomenon
  • Social brain hypothesis (correct)
  • Sexual selection hypothesis
  • Which hypothesis posits that primates evolved a large prefrontal cortex due to the need to navigate dynamic social groups?

  • Social brain hypothesis (correct)
  • Mere-exposure phenomenon
  • Developmental brain hypothesis
  • Sexual selection hypothesis
  • What is the main focus of the lecture on Social Cognition mentioned in the text?

  • Emotional intelligence
  • Decision-making heuristics
  • Attention and Memory (correct)
  • Semantic memory
  • Which cognitive process is emphasized in the lecture on Social Cognition?

    <p>Process</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main concept behind priming as described in the text?

    <p>Ideas recently encountered influence decisions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does priming affect decision-making according to the text?

    <p>Biases decision-making</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of conditioning is associated with advertisers using celebrities to promote products?

    <p>Classical conditioning</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of attitudes is more likely to predict behavior according to the text?

    <p>Specific attitudes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term is used to describe the uncomfortable mental state resulting from a contradiction between attitudes or between an attitude and behavior?

    <p>Cognitive dissonance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How do people typically reduce cognitive dissonance according to the text?

    <p>By changing their attitudes or behaviors</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which household/community background is more likely to lead someone to be involved with their local GAA club, according to the text?

    <p>Strongly sporting and GAA household/community</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What influences the ease or difficulty that a person has in retrieving an attitude from memory?

    <p>Attitude accessibility</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the difference between personal attributions and situational attributions?

    <p>Personal attributions explain behavior based on internal characteristics, while situational attributions explain behavior based on external events.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the fundamental attribution error refer to?

    <p>Overemphasizing personality traits and underestimating situational factors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How do attitudes play a role in evaluating and interacting with other people?

    <p>Attitudes are shaped by social context and influence how we evaluate and interact with others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the mere exposure effect?

    <p>Greater exposure to a stimulus leads to greater liking for it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How do people tend to form attitudes about new things?

    <p>Developing negative attitudes more quickly than positive attitudes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In what way does the mere exposure effect influence liking for a stimulus?

    <p>Greater exposure results in greater liking.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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