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

Contemporary researchers have collected evidence that naturalist Charles Darwin (1872) was correct when he asserted that facial expressions are ________ specific.

According to research presented in this chapter, we typically use two steps in making attributions.The first step involves ________, and the second step involves ________.

Nonverbal behavior is used for all of the following EXCEPT

Ming is from China; Tyrone is from Canada.Both participate in an experiment in which they take a test, are given feedback and told that they did very well, and then are asked to make attributions for their performance.Based on cross-cultural research on the self-serving bias, you would expect that

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 at

The self-serving bias is likely to be the strongest in

Why is it that people do not necessarily make attributions as Kelley's covariation model predicts?

Your sister comes in and announces that she has just gotten engaged to the man she has been dating for the past two months.You feel a mix of surprise, happiness, and concern, and this shows on your face.The expression your face displays is known as a(n)

You're in Hong Kong reading the morning newspaper, and you notice a headline about a double murder that took place overnight.A suspect is in custody.Which of the following headlines is most likely to accompany the story?

The tendency to think that other people are more susceptible to attributional biases in their thinking than we are is a(n)

On a visit to Australia, then-president George H.W.Bush offended the Australians when he flashed the two-fingered "peace sign" to a crowd.This is an example of how the use of ________, which vary from culture to culture, may lead to confusion or conflict if used outside of the user's culture.

Paula's cubicle at work is filled with pictures of her family, comfy stuffed animals, her favorite foods, and posters of her favorite music groups.Based on the research of Gosling, Paula is most likely a(n)

According to the authors of your text, people in Eastern cultures more closely resemble ________ and people in Western cultures resemble ________.

The six major facial expressions discussed in the text are widely considered to be

Miller (1984) studied causal attributions in two different cultures.She found that whereas Indian Hindus ________, participants in the United States ________.

Sarah, a student at an American 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

Hong and colleagues (2003) primed bicultural students with American, Chinese, or neutral images and had them make attributions about why a fish was swimming in front of other fish.What was the independent variable of this experiment?

Heider described people as amateur scientists, trying to understand other people's behavior by working to arrive at a reasonable cause.The effort this requires contradicts the idea of people as ________ thinkers.

Jordanka has big eyes, a small chin and nose, and a high forehead.Her new employer is most likely to believe she is

Ed and Violet just saw their professor slip and fall.Ed thinks, "What a klutz!" but Violet thinks, "I bet there was water on the floor, and she slipped on it." In this case, Ed made an ________ attribution and Violet made a(n) ________ attribution.