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EPPP Practice Exam (Social Psychology)
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EPPP PRACTICE EXAM SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY QUESTIONS & 100%
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i_____________are organised, interconnected mental networks of info that are based on our previous
personal and social exps and help us process and organize info
a) prototypes
b) schemas
c) scripts - schemas
_______provide knowledge about the appropriate sequence of behavs in specific social situations
a) prototypes
b) schemas
c) scripts - scripts
The impact of the social context on impression formation was studied by Rosenhan-what did he find? - 8
pseudopatients admitted themselves to an inpatient ward. Although they acted normally, all but one
were diagnosed by staff as having Sx-- the behavs of others tend to be perceived in a manner consistent
with the social environ in which they occur
Which of these is NOT a type of attribution of behaviour?
a) dispositional vs situational
b) internal vs external
c) stable vs unstable
d) specific vs global - internal vs external
The _____________ occurs when we overestimate the role of dispositional factors and underestimate
the rolw of situational factors in another person's behaviour
,a) fundamental attribution bias
b) actor-observer effect
c) self-serving bias - fundamental attribution bias
The _______________ describes our tendency to make situational attributions to our own behaviours
but dispositional attributions to the behaviour of others
a) fundamental attribution bias
b) actor-observer effect
c) self-serving bias - actor-observer effect
The _____________ describes our tendency to attribute our behaviours to situational factors when the
consequences are negative and to attribute them to dispositional factors when the conseqs are positive
(except in depressed people)
a) fundamental attribution bias
b) actor-observer effect
c) self-serving bias
d) learned helplessness - self-serving bias
_________ are mental shortcuts or rules-of-thumb that people use when making attributions/social
judgments - mental heuristics
The ____________ heuristic involves basing your judgement about whether someone belongs to a
particular category on how similar they are to that category whilst ignorning populaton probability data
a) representativeness
b) availability
c) simulation
d) anchoring and adjustment - representativeness heuristic
The __________ heuristic involves basing the likelihood of an event on how easily you can imagine it
happening
a) representativeness
, b) availability
c) simulation
d) anchoring and adjustment - simulation
The _______ heuristic involves using an initial value as the basis for making a judgement or estimate (ie.
starting price for negotiation at a flea market)
a) representativeness
b) availability
c) simulation
d) anchoring and adjustment - anchoring heuristic
The _______________ heuristic involves judging the likelihood or frequency of an event basked on how
easy it is to recall many examples of that event occuring
a) representativeness
b) availability
c) simulation
d) anchoring and adjustment - availability
The _________ is the tendency to rely on case specific info and ignore probability data when estimating
the likelihood of an event
a) base rate fallacy
b) confirmation bias
c) illusory correlation
d) false effect - base rate fallacy
The ____________ is the tendency to pay attention to information that is line with one's beliefs and to
ignore info that isn't
a) base rate fallacy
b) confirmation bias
c) illusory correlation
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