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

________ are culture-specific norms that dictate what kinds of emotional expression is allowed.

According to research conducted by Susskind and his colleagues (2008) presented by the authors of your text, the expression of fear involves facial movements which

The fundamental attribution error is also known as the

Darwin believed that nonverbal communications were once-useful physiological reactions.Which face could Wghn, an early human, make that looks like vomiting in order to communicate to his group, "Don't eat that!"?

Based on evidence presented by the authors of your text, the facial expression for disgust is adaptive because it

Based on the research presented in this chapter, who is most likely to make self-serving attributions? Someone who is a

Seeing pictures of physically attractive celebrities and models, many people in the U.S.assume that these people are also intelligent, kind, or wealthy.Such assumptions illustrate the schema held widely as a culture that

The tendency to infer that people's behavior corresponds to or matches their underlying personality disposition is known as the

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.When the central and peripheral characters' expressions did not match, Japanese participants were most likely to

Rafael has always hated mathematics courses.However, he likes most other courses at the university.Most other students tend to avoid math courses whenever possible, too.Given this information about consistency, distinctiveness, and consensus, most people would make a(n) ________ attribution for Rafael's attitude.

According to the authors of your text, people use social perception in order to figure people out as part of social survival, and also because it

Although certain facial expressions are easily encoded and decoded across members of the human species, display rules

When observers consider the extent to which different people respond in the same way toward a given stimulus, they are using ________ information.

________ is defined as how we form impressions of and make inferences about other people.

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

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.Which group of participants spent more time looking at people in the periphery?

According to research presented in this chapter, there are two steps involved in the attribution process.When Emma makes an attributional error, it's because she neglects to

The basic type of information people use about others to form impressions and understand them is

What are self-serving attributions, and why do people make them?

The belief in a just world is a ________, which helps people ________.