Exam 4: Social Perception

Scott Roesch and Jame Amirkham (1997)studied attributions for success and failure in athletes.Based on their findings,which of the following athletes would be most likely to make an external attribution for losing?

The actor/observer pattern of attributions does not manifest itself when actors explain their own successes.Why?

Raúl and Ramona are bowling.Ramona watches as she waits for her turn,and when Raúl is up,he rolls the ball right into the gutter.Raúl is likely to think,_______.Whereas Ramona is likely to think,_______.

Belief in a just world is best characterized as a form of

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

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

"Ahmed's bicycle was stolen yesterday," Jason said,"and that's why he's so cranky today." Jason has just used a(n)_______ to explain the cause of Ahmed's behaviour.

Based on a study by Lassiter and his colleagues (2007)examining how judges and police officers viewed tapes of interrogations,if you were going to be interrogated by a detective,you would NOT want the camera pointed

Facial expressions are _______,whereas emblems are _______.

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

The other day Bill was in the coffee shop and Terry looked him right in the eye and gave him a big smile.For an instant Bill thought that perhaps Terry was attracted to him,but then he concluded,"Terry always looks people in the eye and smiles at them." According to Kelley's covariation model,Bill's conclusion is an example of

In research by Lassiter and colleagues (2007),when were judges and police officers who had been shown a videotaped confession by a suspect more likely to evaluate the confession as 'voluntary'?

_______ is to species-specific as _______ are to culture-specific.

Consider the following quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860): "An eye can threaten like a loaded and leveled gun,or can insult like hissing or kicking; or,in its altered mood,by beams of kindness,it can make the heart dance with joy." Emerson was most likely referring to _______ using nonverbal communication.

According to recent research,why does culture influence our tendency to make self-serving attributions?

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

Gestures that have a clear meaning within a culture,but which may not be universally understood,are called

Express is to _______ as interpret is 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

After losing a Little League softball game against the Tigers,what is the coach of the losing Rockets likely to say?