AP Psych Unit 8 FA Dummy 3

If a coach attributes a team’s loss to bad weather rather than lack of skill, they are making a(n) ____.

• Situational attribution

• Dispositional attribution

• Self-serving bias

• Upward comparison

If repeated exposure to a political slogan increases a person’s support for the candidate, this demonstrates ____.

• The mere exposure effect

• Fundamental attribution error

• Downward social comparison

• Self-fulfilling prophecy

If a student believes studying hard will improve their grade, they have a ____.

• Strong internal locus of control

• Strong external locus of control

• Self-serving bias

• Pessimistic explanatory style

A pessimistic explanatory style is characterized by attributing failures to ____.

• Internal, stable, and global factors

• External, unstable, and specific factors

• Luck and fate

• Uncontrollable external forces

When someone believes their intelligence is fixed and cannot change, they are demonstrating a ____.

• Pessimistic explanatory style

• Situational attribution

• Strong internal locus of control

• Self-serving bias

If a student attributes their success to the help of a tutor rather than their own abilities, they are demonstrating ____.

• External locus of control

• Fundamental attribution error

• Self-fulfilling prophecy

• Dispositional attribution

People are more likely to make dispositional attributions when explaining ____.

• Other people’s behavior

• Their own behavior

• Situational influences

• Social comparisons

A person who regularly feels envious of others’ success and believes they are falling behind is likely experiencing ____.

• Relative deprivation

• Self-fulfilling prophecy

• Self-serving bias

• The mere exposure effect

An individual with an external locus of control believes that ____.

• Their fate is controlled by outside factors

• Hard work leads to success

• Their intelligence determines everything

• They can shape their own destiny

Social comparison theory suggests that ____.

• People evaluate themselves based on comparisons with others

• Everyone perceives themselves as equal

• People make attributions about others’ behavior

• Self-fulfilling prophecies drive all actions