Exam 4: Social Perception: How We Come to Understand Other People

According to research presented in this chapter, there are two steps involved in the attribution process. This second step is an example of

Heider assumed that people generally preferred internal over external attributions. This early suggestion has been borne out by later research on

"Computer nerds" are widely held to be socially awkward, introverted, unpopular, and obsessed with anything related to technology. This description represents a(n)

Based on information from the authors of your text, who would be more likely to express a feeling of shame publicly?

In honor of Rosa Parks' contribution to the civil rights movement, the seat behind the driver on buses in major cities was reserved for one day, and people were asked not to sit there. Some people did actually sit in this seat. When a reporter asked these "sitters" to explain their behavior, he found that

Although certain facial expressions are easily encoded and decoded across members of the human species, display rules

According to research conducted by Susskind and his colleagues (2008) presented by the authors of your text, the emotions of ________ and ________ involve opposite facial muscle movements.

Professor DeVeaux reads an essay in which a student argues in favor of full nuclear war to resolve the conflict in the Middle East. Initially she thinks, "Whoa, what an extremist!" Then she recalls that the student had been assigned to advocate nuclear war as part of the assignment. Why would Professor DeVeaux still be likely to view the student as a political extremist?

________ information addresses the extent to which the same person responds similarly to different stimuli.

Hong and colleagues (2003) primed bicultural students with American, Chinese, or neutral images. Why were they able to make more dispositional attributions in the American condition and more situational attributions in the Chinese condition?

Based on a study by Lassiter and his colleagues (2007) examining how judges and police officers viewed tapes of interrogations, if you were going to be interrogated by a detective, you would not want the camera pointed at

Nonverbal behavior is used for all of the following except

The fundamental attribution error occurs more often in ________ cultures.

Milo, a Canadian, just won his race. He is likely to show pride, but it is a more complicated emotion to express than the universal expressions and includes body movement in addition to facial expression. What is Milo going to need to include in order to express pride?

According to the authors of your text, individuals from a(n) ________ culture would be less likely to express feelings of shame in public.

Based on research by Becker and his colleagues (2007) about decoding emotions presented by the authors of your text, which person's expression would be the easiest to decode?

Recall that Hoffman, Lau, and Johnson (1986) provided native English speakers and Chinese-English bilinguals with descriptions of people who fit either an "artistic" type or a "shi gú" type. Their findings revealed that

Which of the following is out of place in this list?

When we make note of an actor's personality, attitudes, values, or character, we are forming a(n)

Sarah, a student at an American university, has just arrived in Bolivia for a study year abroad. When meeting her host parents, she notices that they stand very close to her as they speak. She feels uncomfortable until she realizes that