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8. Which of the following assumptions IS NOT supported by the phenomena of inssficlent justification in Festinger and Carlsmith's Boring Task Study? a the assumption that people strive for cognitive consistency b. the assumption that larger rewards produce greater attitudinal changes e. the assumption that people strive to appear consistent to others d. the assumption that people infer their attitudes from their behaviors and circumstances e. all of the prior assumptions ARE SUPPORTED by insufficient justification effects 9. You and a friend work on an exam together and both decide that the correct answer to question 9 is True". Your friend leaves town before the exam's due date and thus turns in his/her exam scantron on and earlier date. While heading to class to turn in vour exam vour friend calls and you discuss how confidet certain you are that the answer to question #9's is correct (i.e,"True). According to cognitive dissonance theory and its finding it would be expected that a. you would be more confident than your friend is b. your friend would be more confident than you are c. your friend and you would be equally confident about the perceived answer to the exam question. 10. Assuming that most crimes involve violence because the news generally reports on rapes, robberies and beatings illustrates an example of how a. a confirmation bias b. counterfactual thinking contributes to the assumptions we make. c. a defensive attribution d. the availability heuristic 11. The finding that participants making split-second decisions were more prone to falsely identify objects as being a gun when the objects were preceded by photos of a Black man rather than a White man's face best illustrates an example of how a. a fundamental attribution error b. a self-fulfilling prophecy can bias people's snap judgments. c. a defensive attribution d. the representative heuristic 12. You are at your favorite restaurant and notice a server flirting with a customer. Why might the server act this way? Assume that you also observe the following conditions: (1) other severs flirt with this customer; (2) the server has flirted with this same customer on other occasions; and (3) the server has not flirted with other customers. According to Kelley's Covariation Model, which of the following statements is TRUE? a. consistency information is high b. distinctiveness information is high c. you would likely attribute the server's behavior to external causes (e.g., the customer is very attractive) d. all of the prior responses 13. When taking an Abnormal Psychology class it is quite normal for many students to begin to think that they are suffering from various psychological disorders. This phenomenon, is most likely due to a. false consensus effects c. self-serving bias b. priming d. belief perseverance 14. After experiencing an ego-depletion induction in which participants complete an extensive set of complex stroop test trials, participants are a. less likely b. more likely c. just as likely as they would be if they weren't depleted to exhibit the weapon bias.

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8. The correct answer is Option C. The assumption that people strive to be consistent towards others is not supported by the concept of insufficient justification.

9. The correct answer is Option B. In this scenario, your friend would be more confident than you about the answer.

10. The correct answer is Option D. This is an example of availability bias.

11. The correct answer is Option D. This demonstrates the representativeness heuristic.

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