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

Describe the difference between holistic thinking and analytic thinking, and which cultures tend to use these thinking styles.

If research by Pronin and colleagues regarding the bias blind spot applies to you, who would you think is LEAST susceptible to making self-serving attributions?

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

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

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

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

Social perception is defined as __________.

What are self-serving attributions and why do people make them?

When Marnie met Phillip, he was drunk and loud. Now, months later, she still doesn't like him very much, even though she recently found out the reason he was so drunk was because his cold medicine interacted with the alcohol. The lingering opinion of Phillip is a result of __________.

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?

The tendency to think that other people are more susceptible to attributional biases in their thinking than we are is a(n) __________.

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?

Our ability to form an initial impression of others forms as early as __________ years of age.

The text presents the idea that first impressions tend to form long-lasting impressions. Why might this happen?

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

Emre has a baby face. Noam just met him. What is Noam likely to think about Emre?

Using __________, individuals can draw meaningful conclusions about another person's personality or skills based on an extremely brief sample of behavior.

In a study by Lassiter and his colleagues (2007), it was found that when judges and police officers viewed tapes of interrogations, they were likely to find the confession of a suspect more voluntary when the interrogation camera __________.

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 __________.

The belief in a just world is a __________ that helps people __________.