Sixty-Five-Year-Old Bernice Is Taking Courses at the University with the Intention

question 62

Multiple Choice

Sixty-five-year-old Bernice is taking courses at the university with the intention of completing a bachelor's degree.Some members of her family think she is not likely to succeed because she is much too old to learn new information.This family's thinking about Bernice illustrates

• A) hindsight bias.
• B) prejudice.
• C) social scripts.
• D) stereotyping.

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Definitions:

Philip Zimbardo

An American psychologist best known for his leadership of the Stanford Prison Experiment and contributions to the understanding of social psychology.

Simulated Prison Study

An experiment designed to study the psychological effects of perceived power, focusing on the struggle between prisoners and prison officers. It is often associated with the Stanford prison experiment.

Personality Test Scores

Quantitative assessments derived from tests designed to measure various aspects of an individual’s personality traits and characteristics.

Fundamental Attribution Error

The inclination to attribute the actions of others more to their character traits than to the external situations influencing them, downplaying the impact of contextual circumstances.