A Tendency to Overestimate the Extent to Which a Stranger's

question 436

Multiple Choice

A tendency to overestimate the extent to which a stranger's violent behavior stems from his or her aggressive personality best illustrates

• A) peripheral route persuasion.
• B) cognitive dissonance.
• C) the fundamental attribution error.
• D) the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.

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Definitions:

Involuntary Responses

Physical or emotional reactions that occur without conscious choice, often as reflexes or automatic responses.

Classical Conditioning

An instructional process where two stimuli are frequently combined, leading to a response that initially comes from the second stimulus but later comes from the first stimulus alone.

Neutral Stimuli

Stimuli that do not elicit any particular response before conditioning in a learning process.

Conditioned Responses

The acquired reaction to a once neutral stimulus that has been linked with a natural, unconditioned stimulus.