Barrons AP Psychology 7th edition

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1

  1. (D) Faye believes that victims of natural disasters are foolish because they didn’t develop better
    advance detection and warning systems. Faye is manifesting the just-world bias, the belief that
    because the world is a fair place, good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad
    people. The false consensus effect is our tendency to overestimate the number of people whose
    views are similar to our own. The self-fulfilling prophecy effect is the ability of one person’s
    expectations to elicit behavioral confirmation in another. Self-serving bias is the tendency to take
    more credit for good outcomes and less credit for bad outcomes than one deserves. The Barnum
    effect is people’s willingness to see themselves in vague, stock descriptions.

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