Dr. Weimer teaches high school. He believes that minoritystudents cheat more than other
kinds of students, so he watches them extra closely. He does, in fact, catch more minority
students cheating on his tests than other kinds of students.
However,in reality, his other
students are cheating more, but getting caughtless. Dr. Weimer's belief about minority
students is based on
a. an illusory correlation.
b. the illusion of out-group homogeneity.
c. attributional bias.
d. a self-fulfilling prophecy.
e. the fundamental attribution error.
a. an illusory correlation.
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Banks and Barber (1971) presented subjects with a matrix of letters where each row was of a different color and then cued with color to indicate which row the subjects should report. They found:
A. That subjects rarely reported the row that was in the complementary color, suggesting that iconic memory is not like an afterimage. B. That subjects commonly reported the row that was in the complementary color, suggesting that iconic memory is like an afterimage. C. That color was not as effective a cue as the tones that were used in the original Sperling studies. D. That subjects tended to report both the required row and the row that was in the complmentary color, suggesting that iconic memory has some of the properties of an afterimage.
Changes in behavior or attitudes brought about by a desire to follow the beliefs or standards of others is referred to as
A) outgroup invariability. B) ingroup bias. C) conformity. D) outgroup homogeneity bias.