What Types of Attributions Do People Tend to Make About

question 227

Multiple Choice

What types of attributions do people tend to make about other people,based on attractiveness

• A) We tend to be less trusting of attractive individuals. 
• B) We equate attractiveness with positive traits. 
• C) We tend to perceive attractive people as nicer, but less competent. 
• D) We often impose a behavioural penalty on attractive individuals.

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Definitions:

Temporal

Relating to time or denoting time as opposed to space.

Spatial Summation

A mechanism in neural communication where multiple presynaptic neurons together stimulate a postsynaptic neuron to threshold, causing it to fire an action potential.

Synaptic Terminal

The end part of an axon that makes a synaptic contact with another neuron or with a muscle or gland cell.

Voltage-Gated Potassium Channels

Proteins that form channels in cell membranes, allowing potassium ions to pass in response to changes in membrane potential, crucial for electrical signaling in neurons.