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

Hsin and Li Mei are Chinese and considered to be "shi gú" type people. This means they are

The authors of your text present a study by Masuda and his colleagues (2008) that examined cultural differences in social perception. They compared how participants perceived a central character when the surrounding characters in a picture either matched or mismatched the central character's facial expression. What concept were they examining in this study?

Police interviewed witnesses who saw a truck leave the scene of a robbery. Based on the research by Hedden, who is more likely to have seen the text with the business name on the side of the truck?

Rafael has always hated mathematics courses. However, he likes most other courses at the university. Most other students tend to avoid math courses whenever possible, too. Given this information about consistency, distinctiveness, and consensus, most people would make a(n) ________ attribution for Rafael's attitude.

How are implicit personality theories developed?

When a person makes the fundamental attribution error, he or she is most likely to infer that behavior is due to

If people do not have all three types of information necessary (according to the covariation model), what do people do in order to make attributions?

A group of pedestrians is standing on a corner, waiting for the light to change. A driver runs a red light and narrowly misses another car. According to work on the two-step process of making attributions, who is most likely to point out how quickly the light changed from amber to red when explaining the near accident?

All of the following are examples of fundamental attribution error except

Darwin believed that nonverbal communications were once-useful physiological reactions. Which face could Wghn, an early human, make that looks like the vomiting in order to communicate to his group, "Don't eat that!"

The text suggests that the fundamental attribution error occurs because information about the situational causes of behavior is

Sheila fancies herself an outgoing extrovert. She smiles a lot and gestures dramatically as she talks. This example best illustrates the use of nonverbal behavior to

The attributional perspective that addresses behaviors that occur over time, place, and different actors and targets is the ________ model.

Which of the following is not a type of information included in the covariation model of attribution?

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. English speakers filled in gaps in the descriptions with inferences about the artistic type, but not about the shi gú type. In contrast, bilinguals who read the descriptions in English filled in blanks for the artistic type, but not the shi gú type, and bilinguals who read the descriptions in Chinese filled in the blanks for the shi gú type, but not the artistic type. These results suggest that

Imagine you are asked to describe your friend for a dating site using a few words. Which of the following words will automatically get potential dates to think of your friend as powerful and dominant?

Why is belief in a just world a self-serving belief? We can

When do individuals in collectivist cultures make dispositional (internal) attributions?

Why is it that people do not necessarily make attributions as Kelley's covariation model predicts?

Define the fundamental attribution error and discuss why it occurs.