AP Psychology 4.1 C Explain How Person Perception Applies to Behavior and Mental Processes Unit 4 Social Psychology and Personality Questions

Apply mere exposure and self-fulfilling expectations to behaviour, then identify spotlight and halo effects when attention or evaluations are distorted.

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apply the mere-exposure effect when repeated contact increases liking or preference
apply self-fulfilling prophecy when expectations elicit behaviour that confirms them
identify the spotlight effect when someone overestimates how much others notice or judge them
apply the halo effect when one positive impression biases evaluation of other information

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Dr. Knowles is interested in exploring the relationship between garment cost and perceptions of clothing quality. She predicts that higher-priced clothing will be perceived as being of higher quality. She creates a Web site that presents floral shirts listed at a variety of prices. Participants are directed to the Web site, where they are asked to rate the quality of each shirt (on a 1 to 10 scale, with higher numbers meaning better quality). The data collected are presented in the scatterplot.

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Part B Explain how each of the following could affect participants' perceptions of the floral shirts on the Web site.

- Mere-exposure effect

- Cones of the retina

Mere-exposure effect

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