Set 1
After failing an exam, a student attributes the poor performance to unclear questions and unfair grading rather than to a lack of preparation. This explanation most directly illustrates...
Self-serving bias
The phenomenon where people are less likely to help someone if there are others around.
Bystander effect
A model/theory used to describe human personality using openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
Big 5 Personality Model
Which scenario best demonstrates the fundamental attribution error?
A manager blames low sales on poor employee motivation while ignoring an economic downturn
Opinions and beliefs on something derived from past experiences and learned associations rather than fact or conscious thoughts.
Implicit Attitudes
The psychological belief that one’s actions, choices, and efforts directly determine their life outcomes and successes.
Internal Locus Of Control
Psychological concept where a person will keep their own opinion silent in favor of conforming to the group to avoid scrutiny.
Groupthink
Human function is dependent on the relationship between personal cognitive factors, environmental factors and behavior
Reciprocal Determinism
People develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them.
Mere Exposure Effect
The mental discomfort/turmoil when you think or act a different way that clashes with how you think you are.
Cognitive Dissonance
The tendency for groups to make decisions or adopt views that are more extreme than the initial inclinations of their individual members
Group polarization
The theory that personality is based on stable characteristics that carry to a person’s behavior and are consistent throughout different situations.
Trait Theory