1. What do psychologist mean by stereotype and what is meant by stereotype threat? Individual's fastacting, self- fulfilling fear of being judgeed based on a negative sterotype about his or her group.
2. What is involved in making a fundamental attribution error? Give an example of such an error. The
fundamental attribution error is observers' tendency to overestimate traits and to underestimate when
they explain and actor's behavior. Beth might say she did poorly on the test because it was, in fact, too
hard.
3. What is the difference between altruism and egoism? Altruism means giving to another with the
ultimate goal of benefiting that person, even if it incurs a cost to oneself. Egoism means helping another
person for person to increase the chance that the person will return the favor.
4. What is the difference between conformity and obedience? Comformity is the change in a person
behavior to coincide more closely with a group standard. Obedience is behavior that complies with the
explicit demands of the individual in authority.
5 Give me an example of false consensus effect. "How many students at my school support the death
penalty?" The false consensus effect tells us that your answer is likely to depend on whether you support
the death penalty.