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

Professor Axelrod is interested in the effects of physical attractiveness on how others interpret the appearance and behaviors of attractive versus unattractive people. Professor Axelrod is most likely to be interested in

Amber and Jack are very physically attractive. In the U.S. most people would think they are also

Harold Kelley's covariation model is one ________ theory presented in your text.

When people make attributions, research has suggested that they rely less on consensus information than the covariation model suggests, and rely more heavily on

An implicit personality theory is a type of

You're in Hong Kong reading the morning newspaper, and you notice a headline about a double murder that took place overnight. A suspect is in custody. Which of the following headlines is most likely to accompany the story?

Implicit personality theories are strongly influenced by and tied to

Although Westerners have an expression for a "bohemian" or "artistic" type, Chinese do not. This suggests that

Based on research on attributions within married couples presented in your text, consider the following couple: Dean claims that every time Erica does something kind it is just because she wants to impress his mother, and every time she does something rude he says it is because she is a mean person. What kind of relationship are they most likely to have?

Because the knowledge that we are mortal and that bad things can happen to us is very difficult to accept, we often make ________ attributions.

According to the authors of your text, how people communicate-intentionally or unintentionally-without words is the definition of

Describe the role of culture in the fundamental attribution error. How prevalent is this error across cultures, and why do these differences exist?

"Belief in a just world" is best characterized as a form of

Express is to ________ as interpret is to ________.

Simon laughed long and hard when he saw his mother slip and fall. Neither his sister nor his father laughed when they saw her fall. Simon has seen both his mother and other people fall before, but didn't laugh then. According to Kelley's covariation model, observers privy to this information are likely to assume that

Which of the following facial expressions does not belong?

Display rules communicate a culture's ideas about what emotions are appropriate to express in public. There are gender differences in which emotions women and men should display. In addition, evolutionally, there are sex differences in the ease of decoding certain emotions. Describe what emotions are appropriate to display for men and women, and compare how that relates to which emotions are most easily decoded because of our evolutionary heritage.

Hedden and his colleagues (2008) examined the brain activity of East Asians and European Americans while they underwent an fMRI. They found that Americans had more brain activity when they were told to pay attention to the box around the line than when they paid attention to the line. Why was there greater brain activity in this condition?

The logical outcome of distressed couples making external attributions for positive behavior and internal attributions for negative ones is that the relationship is going to

During spring term of her senior year, Linda feels overwhelmed with personal problems that she keeps to herself. She stops attending any extracurricular events and starts missing classes. Who is making the "fundamental attribution error" about Linda's behavior?