Exam 4: Social Perception

At the party,Jenny overheard her friend say to Richard,"Be nice to Jenny! She's had a fight with her boyfriend and is feeling a bit low." Later Richard remarked to Jenny that she looked "so lovely tonight." Based on research by Gagné and colleagues,would Jenny believe that Richard was expressing his true opinion?

The tendency to assume that human behaviour is caused by the kind of person who enacts it was labeled by Lee Ross (1977)as "the fundamental attribution error" because it is

Naturalist Charles Darwin (1872)argued that nonverbal behaviours began as _______ and then became _______.

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

Based on research in Chapter 4 of the text,which of the following cultures is LEAST likely to discourage displays of anger in facial expressions.

Why is the correspondence bias also called the fundamental attribution error and why does it occur?

Those from Asian cultures such as Japan and Korea,show a pattern of attribution that is the OPPOSITE of

According to cross-cultural research by Choi and Nisbett (1998),which of the following statements concerning American and Korean attributions about themselves versus others is true?

Because the knowledge that we are mortal and that bad things can happen to us is very difficult to accept,we often make _______ attributions.

Computer nerds are widely held to be socially awkward,introverted,unpopular,and obsessed with anything related to technology.This description represents a(n)

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

The covariation model assumes that

Paul Ekman and Walter Friesen (1971)collected convincing evidence that facial expressions are universal.In their research,they studied

Sarah,a student at a Canadian university,has just arrived in Bolivia for a study year abroad.When meeting her host parents,she notices that they stand very close to her as they speak.She feels uncomfortable until she realizes that

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

When people communicate using nonverbal behaviour,they typically use

If an American and a Korean student are both given feedback that they have done poorly at a task,who would be more likely to blame him- or herself for the failure?

Shelley Taylor and Susan 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 man or the other.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

René exhibits the actor/observer difference when she says,

_______ information addresses the extent to which the same person responds similarly to different stimuli.