AP Psychology › Attribution, Stereotype, and Discrimination
Which of the following is an appropriate definition for the just-world bias?
Which of the following beliefs is an example of the just world bias?
A false, although common, stereotype is that men are better in engineering fields that woman are. Jane, a female engineering student, takes an engineering test. Jane is equally proficient in engineering as the men are in her class. All the students take a survey prior to the test instructing them to select their gender. Jane ends up performing much more poorly on this test relative to the male students; however, on a separate test without a gender-identifying survey, Jane performs just as well as the male students. Which of the following could have caused Jane's poor score in the first test?
What is the self-serving bias?
Who coined the famous sociological term "self-fulfilling prophecy"?
Which of the following is an example of the fundamental attribution error?
What is the actor-observer bias?
Black and Latino students, when asked to mark their race on the SAT or ACT, seem to fare worse, getting lower scores overall and underperforming predicted scores. Psychologists today are working to make culture-fair tests to eliminate this psychological threat which is best described as which of the following?
What is ethnocentrism?
Which of the following is an illustrative example of the self-fulfilling prophecy?