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

When making an attribution, Pete considers how his brother's behavior is similar to that of other teens in similar situations. Pete is using __________ information.

On a visit to Australia, then president George H. W. Bush offended the Australians when he flashed the two-fingered "V for victory" sign to a crowd. Unfortunately, he flashed the sign with his palm facing himself and not the crowd. This is an example of how the use of __________, which vary from culture to culture, may lead to confusion or conflict if used outside of the user's culture.

The fundamental attribution error is also known as the __________.

Jordanka has big eyes, a small chin and nose, and a high forehead. Her new employer is most likely to believe she is __________.

Professor Dante is interested in how we show more leniency to attractive people who make bad decisions than unattractive people who make bad choices. Professor Dante is studying __________.

When people do not have the information they need to make attributions, how does that impact Kelley's covariation model?

Explanations for our behavior that help us avoid feelings of vulnerability or mortality are called __________.

Anna usually doesn't like movies with violent scenes. Still, she saw Sin City-a violent movie-five times and loved it. Everyone else-including critics-really liked Sin City, too. In this example, distinctiveness is __________ and consensus is __________.

Nora has been blind since birth and has never seen a smile, frown, or furrowed brow. At age three, how capable would she be of expressing emotions using the facial expressions of sighted people?

Galina is described to you as a "computer nerd." Based on this, you assume she is socially awkward, introverted, unpopular, and obsessed with anything related to technology. This information makes up your __________.

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

Zeinab won't make eye contact with you. In American culture, this lack of eye contact is interpreted as a sign of __________.

According to the text, we often fall prey to the fundamental attribution error because __________.

Perceptual salience in attributions refers to the idea that __________.

In a study by Lassiter and his colleagues (2007), they found that when judges and police officers viewed tapes of interrogations, they were more likely to find the confession of a suspect to be voluntary when the camera focused only on the suspect. Why?

Complete the analogy about cultural differences: Western culture is to __________ as __________ is to social group.

Suppose a certain student, Nathan, falls asleep during every chemistry class. Suppose further that Nathan is the only one who falls asleep in this class, and that he falls asleep in all of his other classes. According to Kelley's covariation model of attribution, how will people explain Nathan's behavior (falling asleep)?

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. When the central and peripheral characters' expressions did not match, Japanese participants were most likely to __________.

In honor of Rosa Parks's contribution to the civil rights movement, the seat behind the driver on buses in major cities was reserved for one day, and people were asked not to sit there. Some people actually did sit in this seat. Making the assumption that these people were prejudiced or racist is an example of the __________.

Chapter 1 of the textbook introduced the idea that people often behave and think in ways to protect their self-esteem. Which of the following will help do that?