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

According to research conducted by Susskind and his colleagues (2008), presented by the authors of your text, the emotions of __________ and __________ involve opposite facial muscle movements.

In interviewing a new employee, you find that they won't shake your hand, they don't make eye contact with you, and they speak so quietly you can barely hear them. In determining the reason for their behavior, you are most likely to __________.

The research done on Canadian politicians showed that the candidate perceived to be __________ was most likely to be voted into office.

When people make the fundamental attribution error, they tend to __________.

Simon laughed long and hard when he saw his mother slip and fall. Neither his sister nor his father laughed when they saw her fall. Simon has seen both his mother and other people fall before but didn't laugh then. According to Kelley's covariation model, observers privy to this information are likely to assume that __________.

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

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

When we make note of an actor's personality, attitudes, values, or character, we are forming a(n) __________.

With the belief in the individual soul and the legal tradition of individual rights, Western cultures stress __________.

Which of the following facial expressions does NOT belong to the group of accepted universal facial expressions?

When we decide that there is something about the situation that is causing a behavior, we are making a(n) __________ attribution.

When distinctiveness is __________, consensus is __________, and consistency is high, people are likely to make an external attribution.

When do individuals in collectivist cultures make dispositional (internal) attributions?

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?

In trying to make sense of the social world, people are much like amateur scientists. This observation is most compatible with Heider's (1958) classic scholarly work on __________.

According to the authors of your text, people in __________ cultures tend to have an analytic thinking style.

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

Research by Ambady and colleagues has demonstrated that student impressions of professors formed after observing only ten seconds of behavior __________.

Based on evidence presented by the authors of your text, the facial expression for disgust is adaptive because it __________.

One assumption of the covariation model is that people make causal attributions __________.