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NClaborn

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The relatively greater violence rates in the southern United States has been attributed to
 
  a. greater variability of temperature in the South than in the North.
  b. the manner in which residents of the South respond to status threats.
  c. the ratio of males to females living in the South.
  d. the age demographics of the South.

Question 2

According to Gilbert's two-step model of social perception, distraction should make the fundamental attribution error more likely to happen because it
 
  a. discourages personal attributions, but has little effect on situational attributions.
  b. inhibits perceivers from using distinctiveness information, but allows them to take consistency information intoaccount.
 c. does not interfere with the automatic process of making personal attributions, but does interfere with the moredifficult process of making adjustments for situational factors.
 d. changes the interrelationship between the figure and the background in social perception.



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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

c



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