The Mental Process of Inferring the Causes of People's Behavior

question 19

Multiple Choice

The mental process of inferring the causes of people's behavior, including one's own, is called:

• A) altruism.
• B) ethnocentrism.
• C) attribution.
• D) prejudice.

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Definitions:

General Adaptation Syndrome

A three-phase process (alarm, resistance, and exhaustion) that describes the body's response to stress.

Hans Selye

A pioneering Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist who is considered the father of the concept of stress and its effects on the body.

Cognitive Task

A task or activity that requires the use of mental processes such as perception, memory, reasoning, and problem-solving.

Jump to Conclusions

A cognitive bias that describes the action of arriving at a decision or opinion with little to no evidence or reasoning process.