Card 15 / 25: Gilbert, Pelham and Krull (1988) asked people to watch a videotape of a woman speaking about something anxiously. Although they could not hear what the woman was talking about, they were told that the topic of her speech was either anxiety-provoking or fairly neutral. Half of the participants just watched the video, but the other half did so while remembering a list of topics (high cognitive load). Which of the following is FALSE about this study?
A)
People under high cognitive load rated the women as anxious (i.e. dispositional attribution) regardless of the purported topic of her speech.
B)
People without cognitive load rated the women as anxious only when she was said to be talking about a neutral topic.
C)
Their finding supported the idea that a dispositional attribution is automatic.
D)
Their finding supported the idea that a corrected process is automatic.
Answer:
A) People under high cognitive load rated the women as anxious (i.e. dispositional attribution) regardless of the purported topic of her speech.
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