Person Perception and Attributions

Question 1

Winning a game and attributing it to your own skills. Losing a game and attributing it to the rules.

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sel-serving bias

Question 2

You see a man wearing a business suit but with a bright red, curly mullet; you pay more attention to the hair than suit

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saliency detection

Question 3

The halo effect is a cognitive bias which forms part of the...

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physical cues

Question 4

When you attribute success to yourself and failure to external causes, this is known as?

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Self serving bias

Question 5

The tendency to attribute our own behaviour to situational causes, but to attribute the behaviour of others to internal

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actor-observer bias

Question 6

The tendency to overemphasise personal characteristics and ignore situational factors.

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fundamental attribution error

Question 7

A guy with black hair who dresses all in black and wears white makeup, you judge that they like &#x27;goth&#x27; music.

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Social categorisation

Question 8

Someone else trips over we think they are clumsy but if I trip over, the concrete was slippery or uneven.

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actor-observer bias

Question 9

If someone overtakes us while we are driving and we think they are just a jerk!

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fundamental attribution error

Question 10

What is attribution theory?

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Understanding why we have success or failure.

Questions 10