Exam 16: Applying Social Psychology to the Classroom

According to the principle of the self-serving bias,we have a tendency to attribute our positive outcomes to internal causes (e.g.,our traits or characteristics)but to attribute our negative outcomes to external causes (e.g.,chance or difficulty of a task).

Self-handicapping and self-serving bias are two forms of self-perception errors.

Which of the following is true?

Lassiter's research in the legal system has shown that simulated jurors who watch videotaped confessions (either simulated or actual)that focused on the alleged perpetrator were more likely to

Which of the following is NOT true regarding Elliot and Church's (2003)study of self-handicapping?

Streufert and Streufert (1969)had pairs of participants play a tactical economics game against another "team" (actually a computer).Teams were given either success or failure feedback and then rated how much their performance was the result of their team or of the other team.This research was cited as a demonstration of ______.

In-group homogeneity bias refers to tendency to perceive less variability among members of an out-group than among members of the in-group.

According to the social psychological concept of ______,people act in ways that may undermine their subsequent performances,thereby having anticipatory excuses for potential failures.

Explain what is meant by self-handicapping,and describe Berglas and Jones's classic study in which they used analogies to help them study self-handicapping.

Out-group homogeneity bias refers to the tendency to perceive more variability among members of an out-group than among members of the in-group.

Wegner,Coulton,and Wenzlaff (1985)had participants read 25 pairs of suicide notes and try to figure out which note of each pair was actually written by a person considering committing suicide.The participants were given feedback about their accuracy,subsequently informed that the feedback was not genuine,and so forth.This research was cited as demonstrating ______.