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

Which of the following are you most likely to evaluate positively?

Making attributions about others' behaviors is a multistep process. How many steps are involved? What attribution do people tend to initially make, and when would individuals proceed past the initial step?

Sheila fancies herself an outgoing extrovert. She smiles a lot and gestures dramatically as she talks. This example best illustrates the use of nonverbal behavior to __________.

Which of the following is NOT an example of the fundamental attribution error?

Based on the research presented in this chapter, who is most likely to make self-serving attributions?

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 text with the business name on the side of the truck?

Sometimes so-called self-serving attributions in the face of a setback only look self-serving to others. This is because actors __________.

According to recent research, why does culture influence our tendency to make internal versus external attributions?

Western (United States) is to ________ as Eastern (Asian) is to ________. Which of the following pairs does NOT complete this analogy accurately?

One day, Professor Burns came into class and put his briefcase onto the desk in the front of the room. The desk promptly fell apart and the briefcase tumbled to the floor. Because of perceptual salience, what will students be most likely to think?

The six major facial expressions discussed in the text are widely considered to be __________.

__________ attribution is to person as __________ attribution is to situation.

Recent research suggests that the expression for the emotion of contempt may be __________.

Recall that Ekman and Friesen (1971) have demonstrated that Fore tribespeople from a preliterate culture in New Guinea were able to decode the facial expressions of Westerners and encode emotion easily interpretable by Westerners. Their findings suggest that Darwin was __________.

Seeing pictures of physically attractive celebrities and models, many people in the U.S. assume that these people are also intelligent, kind, or wealthy. Such assumptions illustrate a schema held widely in the culture that __________.

If you use the Internet, you are probably familiar with emoticons: facial expressions displayed using a combination of typographic figures,

Culture can be considered an all-encompassing, higher-level__________.

Recall that even when participants in an experiment conducted by Jones and Harris (1967) were told that people were assigned to write an essay sympathetic to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, they still were willing to assume that the essay reflected the writer's true "pro-Castro" attitudes. These findings illustrate __________.

William is constantly searching for employment, but has yet to be hired. While William is outside in the unemployment line, a woman yells at him as she drives by, "Get a job, you lazy bum!" Her assumption about William is an example of the __________.

Samuel, a fifth grader, had to write an essay about how wonderful the mayor was and how much good he had done for the town. Samuel's dad was very upset with him after reading the essay because his dad didn't really like the mayor. Samuel's dad was mad that Samuel disagreed with him, even when Samuel told him he was forced to write the essay. Samuel is in a similar situation as participants in Jones and Harris (1967) study. Samuel's dad is __________.