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A comprehensive overview of the 2024 Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) exam, covering a wide range of topics such as fundamental attribution error, age discrimination, NATO, economic advisers, war powers, civil rights, and international treaties. This document provides detailed information on the key concepts and topics likely to be tested, making it a valuable resource for individuals preparing for the FSOT exam.
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Fundamental attribution error - correct answersthe tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition Age discrimination in Employment Act - correct answersA federal act passed in 1967 making it illegal for employers with 20 or more employees working at least 20 weeks a year to discriminate against workers aged 40 years or older. Act that prohibits discrimination in employment for persons age 40 and over except where age is a bona fide occupational qualification NATO - correct answers1949; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an attack against one of the member nations would be viewed as an attack against them all; protected member nations under American nuclear power; first US peacetime military alliance in history, formal end to US isolationism; inspired Soviet Union to create the German Democratic Republic (Eastern Germany) and explode an atomic bomb in 1949, and set up rival eastern bloc military alliance, the Warsaw Pact in 1955; sparked the massive arms race known as the Cold War Council of Economic Advisers - correct answersA three-member body appointed by the president to advise the president on economic policy. War Powers Clause - correct answersVests in the Congress the exclusive power to declare war, Emancipation Proclamation - correct answersissued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, it declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states would be free Declaration of Independence - correct answersWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,[72] that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Roe v Wade - correct answersestablished national abortion guidelines; trimester guidelines; no state interference in 1st; state may regulate to protect health of mother in 2nd; state may regulate to protect health or unborn child in 3rd. inferred from right of privacy established in griswald v. Connecticut '73 Supreme ct decision that stuck down 46 state laws restricting women's access to abortion (highlighted divisions within women's mvmt Miranda v Arizona - correct answersSupreme Court held that criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with an attorney and of their right against self-incrimination prior to questioning by police. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke - correct answers1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race. However, the Court did not prohibit the school from considering race as a factor in future admissions decisions Threshold Test Ban Treaty 1974 - correct answersWas signed in July 1974 by the USA and the USSR. It establishes a nuclear "threshold," by prohibiting nuclear tests of devices having a yield exceeding 150 kilotons Strategic Arms Limitation 1979 - correct answersAn agreement to limit strategic launchers was reached in Vienna on June 18, 1979, and was signed by Leonid Brezhnev and President of the United States Jimmy Carter. In response to the refusal of the U.S. Congress to ratify the treaty, a young member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware, met with the Soviet Foreign Minister Andrey Gromyko, "educated him about American concerns and interests" and secured several changes that neither the U.S. Secretary of State nor President Jimmy Carter could obtain. Six months after the signing, the Soviet Union deployed troops to Afghanistan, and in September of the same year senators including Henry M. Jackson and Frank Church discovered the so-called "Soviet brigade" on Cuba[citation needed]. In light of these developments, the treaty was never formally ratified by the United States Senate. Its terms were, nonetheless, honored by both sides until 1986 when the Reagan Administration withdrew from SALT II after accusing the Soviets of violating the pact.
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1988 - correct answersIs a 1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. Signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on December 8, 1987, it was ratified by the United States Senate on May 27, 1988 and came into force on June 1 of that year. The treaty is formally titled The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. The treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges, defined as between 500-5,500 km (300-3,400 miles). By the treaty's deadline of June 1, 1991, a total of 2,692 of such weapons had been destroyed, 846 by the U.S. and 1,846 by the Soviet Union, which was much more unequal in number of INF warheads destroyed. Under the treaty both nations were allowed to inspect each other's military installations. Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe - correct answerswas negotiated and concluded during the last years of the Cold War and established comprehensive limits on key categories of conventional military equipment in Europe (from the Atlantic to the Urals) and mandated the destruction of excess weaponry. The treaty proposed equal limits for the two "groups of states-parties", the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact. actor observer error - correct answersThey hypothesized that "actors tend to attribute the causes of their behavior to stimuli inherent in the situation, while observers tend to attribute behavior to stable dispositions of the actor". Imagine a student who spent hours studying for an exam. Why did she? According to Jones and Nisbett's (1971) hypothesis, the student herself (the "actor") is likely to explain her intensive studying by referring to the upcoming difficult exam whereas other people (the "observers") are likely to explain her studying by referring to her dispositions such as being hardworking or ambitious. Self serving Bias Error - correct answersoccurs when people attribute their successes to internal or personal factors but attribute their failures to situational factors beyond their control. The self-serving bias can be seen in the common human tendency to take credit for success but to deny responsibility for failure. Warsaw Pact - correct answerstreaty signed in 1955 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. countered NATO