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Chapter 5 Perception and Individual Decision Making MULTIPLE CHOICE 2. What do we call the process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment? a. interpretation b. environmental analysis c. social verification d. outlook e. perception 4. Which of the following is not true about our perceptions of a target? a. Objects that are close together will be perceived together rather than separately. b. Persons that are similar to each other tend to be grouped together. c. Targets are usually looked at in isolation. d. Motion, sounds, size, and other attributes of a target shape the way we see it. e. Objects that are distant from one another will be perceived separately rather than as a group. 6. When individuals observe another person’s behavior, they attempt to determine whether it is internally or externally caused. This phenomenon is most directly relevant to which of the following? a. the Pygmalion effect b. projection theory c. attribution theory d. selective perception theory e. expectancy theory 8. What sort of actions are most likely to be attributed to external causes? a. Actions that have high distinctiveness, high consensus and high consistency. b. Actions that have high distinctiveness, high consensus and low consistency. c. Actions that have high distinctiveness, low consensus and low consistency. d. Actions that have low distinctiveness, low consistency and high consensus e. Actions that have low distinctiveness, low consensus and low consistency. 11. Janice is late for work each day by about ten minutes. How would Attribution Theory describe this behavior? a. It shows consensus b. It shows similarity c. It shows reliability d. It shows consistency e. It shows distinctiveness 13. What term is used for the tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of ot