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

The authors of your text present a study by Masuda and his colleagues (2008) that examined cultural differences in social perception.They compared how participants perceived a central character when the surrounding characters in a picture either matched or mismatched the central character's facial expression.What implications does this study have for the idea of analytic and holistic thinking styles?

Culture can be considered an all-encompassing, higher-level

Amber and Jack are very physically attractive.In the U.S.most people would think they are also

In a study by Lassiter and his colleagues (2007), they 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?

According to the authors of your text, people in ________ cultures tend to have an analytic thinking style.

On your birthday, you arrive home and are overjoyed to find a large bouquet of flowers from your best friend.Your eyes grow wide and a broad smile crosses your face.You laugh in delight.This example best illustrates the use of nonverbal behavior to

Don is running late for work, and arrives ten minutes late.Which of the following represents an internal attribution that his supervisor would make?

Define the fundamental attribution error and discuss why it occurs.

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

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

When making an attribution, Dan considers how his roommate has behaved in similar situations in the past.Dan is using _______ information.

When Marnie met Phillip, he was drunk and loud.Now, months later, she still doesn't like him very much, even though she recently found out the reason he was so drunk was because his cold medicine interacted with the alcohol.The lingering opinion of Phillip is a result of

In talking to an acquaintance of yours, you note that she never looks you directly in the eye.To figure out whether this is because she is shy, because she dislikes you, or because she comes from a culture that discourages direct eye contact, you would probably

The "hand purse" gesture means "good" or "slow down" in some cultures.In American culture, it doesn't have a clear meaning; therefore, it is a(n)

Professor Axelrod is interested in the effects of physical attractiveness on how others interpret the appearance and behaviors of attractive versus unattractive people.Professor Axelrod is most likely to be interested in

Based on the meta-analysis by Mezulis, which of the following is true?

Nora has been blind since birth, and has never seen a smile, frown, or furrowed brow.At age three, how capable would she be of expressing emotions using the facial expressions of sighted people?

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

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.

When people make attributions, research has suggested that they rely less on consensus information than the covariation model suggests, and rely more heavily on