Exam 4: Social Perception

Padma is on the phone when her roommate enters the room.Padma signals to her roommate to be quiet by pointing to the phone,shaking her head,and placing a raised index finger in front of her mouth.This example illustrates the use of nonverbal communication to _______ verbal communication.

Hana usually doesn't like movies with violent scenes,but she saw Pulp Fiction,a violent movie,five times and loved it.Everyone else,including critics,also really liked Pulp Fiction.In this example,distinctiveness is _______ and consensus is _______.

Why is belief in a just world a defensive belief?

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

Recall the cross-cultural differences in the self-serving bias between Eastern and Western cultures.Describe the differences,and provide an example of how someone in China might attribute a failure compared to someone from Canada.

Which of the following is NOT a conclusion from research about gender differences in nonverbal behaviour?

Naturalist Charles Darwin (1872)asserted that facial expressions are

Political commentator and humorist Molly Ivens made "Bubba" famous.Bubba is a loud,beer-drinking,swaggering man,simple in his tastes and thinking.This constellation of Bubba traits represents a(n)

According to the textbook authors,which of the following statements is NOT one of the recent refinements of Kelley's covariation theory?

What are the two steps in making attributions?

Based on research by Fincham and colleagues on attributions of married couples,consider the following couple: Dean claims that every time Erica does something kind it is just because she wants to impress his mother,and every time she does something rude he says it is because she is a mean person.What kind of relationship are they most likely to have?

Ryan (an American student)and Kim (an exchange student from Korea)are waiting in the medical clinic reception area.A father rushes in carrying his 3-year-old child in his arms and demands an appointment for his child.As the receptionist tries to explain that the clinic is closing soon and there are no more appointments available for this evening,the father becomes increasingly agitated.According to research by Choi and Nisbett (1998)on cross-cultural differences in the actor/observer effect,what attributions about the father's behaviour would be predicted for Ryan and Kim?

Jacquie tells me that the latest album by Strapping Young Lad is fantastic.It is her favourite album and I should definitely buy it as soon as possible.Which of the following sets of attributional information constitute the best evidence that the album is actually good,and isn't just due to the fact that sometimes Jacquie is weird?

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

According to the text,which of the following is NOT a display rule that governs the expression of emotions?

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

_______ theory provides a description of how people explain the causes of their own and other's behaviour.

Hana usually doesn't like movies with violent scenes,but she saw Pulp Fiction,a violent movie,five times and loved it.Everyone else also really liked Pulp Fiction.After reading Chapter 4,how would you explain why Hana saw Pulp Fiction so many times?

According to Fritz Heider (1958),people more likely to make internal rather than external attributions because they are

According to the authors,why are reality TV shows like Survivor of interest to viewers from a social psychological perspective?