Exam 5: Social Psychology and Communication Theories: Understanding Perception and Bias

__________ Model of communication is used to enhance the individual's perception on others.

__________ refers to concrete example of behavior others have performed that are consistent with a given traits

__________ refers to vocal communication that is separate from actual language

Social psychologists and personality psychologists differ in that

Internal attributions are often referred to as

Information Integration Theory was developed by

The advantages of the co-variation model compared to correspondent inference theory are that it can account for __________ instances of behavior and that it can explain __________ attributions as well. The appropriate blanks are

According to the self-serving attribution bias, when you have just failed a test you are most likely to make what kind of attribution?

Which is true of social stereotypes?

The idea that we will protect our self-esteem by attempting to justify past behavior leads to the prediction that

Jones and Davis suggest that we arrive at a correspondent inference by processing three kinds of information. Which of the following is not one of the three they suggest

In Johari window model, information about yourself that others know in a group but you will unaware of it is known as __________.

__________ model describes the circular process of communication with feedback from the receiver.

Mental summaries that are abstracted from repeated observation of other's behavior

There is a perspective in social cognition that suggest that perceives are reluctant to expend cognitive resources and look for any opportunity to avoid doing so. This perspective is known as

According to Kelley __________ is the extent to which the person behaves like this every time the situation occurs

The actor observer-bias states that we are more likely to make __________ attributions or our own behavior and __________ attributions for someone else's behavior. The appropriate blanks are

They are time-saving mental shortcuts that reduce complex judgements to simple rules of thumb. They are quick and easy, but can result in biased information processing. They are known as

People would be less likely to help a man who fainted in a busy shopping mall, but more likely to help a man who fainted small convenience store. This behavior explains

__________ bias occurs the sample studied in an experiment does not correctly represent the population the researcher wants to draw conclusions about