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

Based on the meta-analysis by Mezulis, which of the following is true?

According to the authors of your text, people in Eastern cultures more closely resemble ________ and people in Western cultures resemble ________.

Wan is a Korean student and Jim is an American student. Both take part in an experiment in which they listen to another student read aloud her essay, knowing that this other student's essay was on an assigned position. Then they are asked to indicate what this other student really believes. Based on the results of cross-cultural research on the fundamental attribution error, which of the following is true?

Lars has been blind since birth. Which negative emotion is he unlikely to be able to express on his face?

Miller (1984) studied causal attributions in two different cultures. She found that whereas Indian Hindus ________, participants in the United States ________.

When people make internal attributions for their successes and external attributions for their failures in order to protect their self-esteem, they are making

We make self-serving attributions for all of the following reasons except that we

"You reap what you sow," goes the old adage. This saying is most compatible with the social-psychological concept of

The main idea of the role of perceptual salience in attributions is

Students in the United States seldom applaud after a lecture, whereas students in Europe often applaud or rap their knuckles on their desks. This cultural difference reflects the power of ________ to influence nonverbal communication.

Tina is very happy in her marriage. She is going to make ________ attributions about the positive behaviors of her spouse.

According to your textbook authors, the popularity of "reality" television is largely due to the fact that we

The fundamental attribution error is also known as the

When we make inferences about someone's personality based on what we already know about some characteristics, we are using a(n)

Darwin believed that emotional expressions began as ________ that came to have evolutionary value because they ________.

When we make self-serving attributions, we tend to attribute our successes to ________ factors and our failures to ________ factors.

The social psychologist Fritz Heider is historically important in the field for his contribution of

In the book and film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, greedy Augustus Gloop disappears into the river of chocolate, gum-addicted Violet Beauregard turns into a blueberry when she insists on testing a blueberry-flavored gum that hasn't been perfected yet, selfish Veruca Salt tries to steal a golden egg and falls down a chute, and television-obsessed Mike Teevee shrinks himself while playing with a transmitter. Only Charlie-from the poor but hardworking and loving family-makes it all the way to the tour's end, at which point he returns the everlasting gobstopper to Mr. Wonka, who rewards him by giving him the factory. The events in this story illustrate the

In Heider's attribution theory, attributions are dichotomous-that is, there are two possible attributions a person can make about another's behavior. Describe both of these types of attributions, and then provide an example of each type of attribution one could make about why someone is running late for a meeting.

________ theory provides a description of how people explain the causes of their own and others' behaviors.