Question 10According to Lee Ross and Richard Nisbett, why do people tend to focus on character traits instead of situational factors?
A. Because in our culture, we don't look kindly on people who are in the same situations.
B. It's much easier to invoke dispositions to explain our own behavior because we pay close attention to ourselves rather than others.
C. We don't have the language for what we normally think of as personally traits.
D. It's hard for us to put ourselves in the shoes of others because we don't even know they're wearing shoes.
E. We selectively attend to what people are doing or saying rather than the context and we don’t have many labels for situations that prompt certain behaviours.
Question 9In this episode, we described a channel factor as an aspect of the situation that bridges between an intention and action and has a major impact on behavior. In Milgram's obedience study, a channel factor was the "gradual escalation" of shocks. In the Good Samaritan study, "time to help" was critical. Which of the following aspects is a channel factor that we described in the case of organ donation?
A. Create a public service announcement informing viewers of organ shortages.
B. Adopt a system where anyone who does not refuse to donate their organs becomes a donor by default.
C. Explain the benefits of becoming a donor along with personal anecdotes.
Draw a map explaining exactly how to get to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Educate individuals about organ donor statistics.
Question 8According to the Hartshorne and May study, how strong was the actual relationship between cheating in one circumstance (e.g., the number of times they ran around a track) and cheating in another (e.g., cheating at solving a puzzle) on a scale from 1 to 100?
A. 15
B. 30
C. 45
D. 60
E. 75
Question 7Hartshorne and May measured honesty among about 8,000 kids across a variety of tasks where they had the opportunity to cheat: solving puzzles, athletic tasks, arithmetic problems, grading their own papers, and so on. When asked about the strength of the relationship between cheating in one circumstance (e.g., the number of times they ran around a track) and cheating in another (e.g., cheating at solving a puzzle), how strong do people generally rate this relationship on a scale from 1 to 100?
A. 15
B. 30
C. 45
D. 60
E. 75