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

Emma arrived late for her job interview, wore too much cologne, and forgot the interviewer's name. Because of the __________, the interviewer formed a negative __________ of her.

Express is to __________ as interpret is to __________.

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

White and colleagues (2017) have proposed that one more way to study cultural differences in attributions is to study people who follow religions that believe in karma. Karma is __________.

In a study by Hedden and his colleagues (2008) examining brain activity, East Asians and European Americans underwent an fMRI while focusing on either a target or the context of a picture. In which circumstance did European Americans exert more attention?

Your best friend comes by to let you know he just landed his dream job in New York. You feel excited for him, and yet you are sad that he will be leaving. These different emotions show on your face. The expression on your face is known as __________.

Which of the following is out of place?

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

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.

When observers consider the extent to which different people respond in the same way toward a given stimulus, they are using __________ information.

All we can see is other people's appearance and behavior, but we are most interested in trying to infer from this __________.

After a long day at work, you get home, log on to Facebook, and find three messages from friends, checking on you. You smile and laugh in delight that your friends have shown they care. Your nonverbal behavior in this example is helping you __________.

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

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 __________.

How have researchers collected evidence that there are six major human emotions conveyed via facial expressions?

Heider described people as amateur scientists, trying to understand other people's behavior by working to arrive at a reasonable cause. The effort this requires contradicts the idea of people as __________ thinkers.