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

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

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 __________.

Which of the following best summarizes the results of the research by Roesch and Amirkhan (1997) regarding the use of self-serving biases in athletes?

__________ information addresses the extent to which an actor behaves in a similar way in response to a stimulus across time and circumstances.

According to research conducted by Susskind and his colleagues (2008), presented by the authors of your text, the expression of fear involves facial movements that __________.

Research on people's use of the covariation model in making attributions suggests that people are less likely to use __________ information than Kelley's model predicts.

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

Paula's cubicle at work is filled with pictures of her family, comfy stuffed animals, her favorite foods, and posters of her favorite music groups. Based on the research of Gosling, Paula is most likely a(n) __________.

Don is running late for work, and arrives ten minutes late. Which of the following represents an internal attribution that his supervisor would make?

After losing a Little League softball game between the Rockets and the Tigers, what is the coach of the losing Rockets likely to say?

Hong and colleagues (2003) primed bicultural students with American, Chinese, or neutral images. Why were they able to make more dispositional attributions in the American condition and more situational attributions in the Chinese condition?

When people are motivated to reach an accurate judgment, or are suspicious of a person (suspecting lying or ulterior motives, for instance), they are more likely to engage in the __________ of the two-step process of attributions.

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 __________.

Which of the following is NOT considered a nonverbal behavior?

What are three challenges in decoding facial expressions, as presented in your text?

When people are distracted, they are more likely to fall prey to the fundamental attribution error. This occurs because internal attributions arise from __________, whereas external attributions arise from __________.

Ming is from China; Tyrone is from Canada. Both participate in an experiment in which they take a test, are given feedback and told that they did very well, and then are asked to make attributions for their performance. Based on cross-cultural research on the self-serving bias, you would expect that __________.

Based on information from the authors of your text, who would be more likely to express a feeling of shame publicly?

If nonverbal communications were used evolutionarily to communicate with other members of your species, how would an early human convey that the thing they just ate was tasty and pleasing?

Ekman and Friesen (1971) collected convincing evidence that facial expressions are universal. In their research, they studied __________.