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

"Ellen is always crabby and tense, and that's why she's acting so impatient today," Grace remarked. Grace has just used a(n) __________ attribution to explain the cause of Ellen's impatience.

You're in Hong Kong reading the morning newspaper, and you notice a headline about a double murder that took place overnight. A suspect is in custody. Which of the following headlines is most likely to accompany the story?

Why is it difficult to draw inferences about other people's behaviors?

When situational causes of behavior are unavailable or difficult to interpret, what is the most likely outcome?

__________ theory provides a description of how people explain the causes of their own and others' behaviors.

Jessica smiles to convey that she is happy. Jessica's smile is a way of __________ the emotion of happiness.

"Belief in a just world" is best characterized as a form of __________.

Chantelle's family is hosting a Japanese exchange student, Yukiko, at their home for a year. Chantelle notices that Yukiko hides her smile behind her hands. After reading Chapter 4 (Social Perception), Chantelle learns that Yukiko hides her smile because __________.

Recall that Taylor and Fiske (1975) conducted a clever experiment in which a group of participants observed a scripted conversation between two male confederates. Some could see both of the men; others could see the face of only one or the other man. When asked questions about the two confederates (e.g., who had taken the lead in the conversation), participants who had a clear view of both men thought they were equally influential, whereas those who faced one or the other thought that the man whose face they saw was more influential. These results demonstrated that __________.

According to the authors of your text, emojis are used to __________.

Jonathan is an American student and was just caught cheating on an exam. Which of the following emotions is he LEAST likely to express?

Belief perseverance is likely a result of __________.

Recall that a number of researchers have found that participants from Asian cultures are less likely than participants from Western cultures to make the fundamental attribution error. These findings suggest that __________.

Amber and Jack are very physically attractive. In the U.S., most people would think they are also __________.

__________ are culture-specific norms that dictate what kinds of emotional expression are allowed.

Darwin believed that emotional expressions began as __________ that came to have evolutionary value because they __________.

Define the fundamental attribution error and discuss why it occurs.

Police interviewed witnesses who saw a truck leave the scene of a robbery. Based on the research by Hedden, who is more likely to have seen the artwork around the text of the business name on the side of the truck?

According to research conducted by Susskind and his colleagues (2008), presented by the authors of your text, when people make the facial expression of disgust, it involves __________.

Which of the following is NOT one of the six accepted universal facial expressions?