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

Imagine traveling to a country where you don't speak the native language.You just had a great meal.You don't want to be misunderstood, so how can you communicate to your host that the meal was great, and that you're happy?

Eva and her roommate haven't been getting along lately.Every time Eva enters the room, her roommate looks away and turns her body so that her back is to Eva.This example best illustrates the use of nonverbal behavior to

According to the authors of your text, how people communicate-intentionally or unintentionally-without words is the definition of

One day, Professor Burns came into class and put his briefcase onto the desk in the front of the room.The desk promptly fell apart and the briefcase tumbled to the floor.Because of perceptual salience, what will students be most likely to think?

In a study by Lassiter and his colleagues (2007), it was found that when judges and police officers viewed tapes of interrogations, they were likely to find the confession of a suspect more voluntary when the interrogation camera

The processes of decoding nonverbal communications and using schemas during impression formation are both examples of ________ processes.

Anna usually doesn't like movies with violent scenes.Still, she saw Sin City-a violent movie-five times, and loved it.Everyone else-including critics-really liked Sin City, too.In this example, distinctiveness is ________ and consensus is ________.

Samuel, a fifth grader, had to write an essay about how wonderful the mayor was and how much good he had done for the town.Samuel's dad was very upset with him after reading the essay because his dad didn't really like the mayor.Samuel's dad was mad that Samuel disagreed with him, even when Samuel told him he was forced to write the essay.Samuel is in a similar situation as participants in Jones and Harris (1967) study.Samuel's dad is

Police interviewed witnesses who saw a truck leave the scene of a robbery.Based on the research by Hedden, who is more likely to have seen the text with the business name on the side of the truck?

Ekman and his colleagues have identified ________ universal facial expressions in their research.

When people are motivated to reach an accurate judgment, or are suspicious of a person (suspecting lying or ulterior motives for instance), they are more likely to engage in the _________ of the two-step process of attributions.

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

All of the following are among the six universally recognized facial expressions reported by Ekman EXCEPT

When we decide that there is something about the situation that is causing a behavior, we are making a(n) ________ attribution.

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 dependent variable of this experiment?

Zeinab won't make eye contact with you.In American culture, this lack of eye contact is interpreted as a sign of

Research on people's use of the covariation model in making attributions suggests that people are less likely to use ________ information than Kelley's model predicts.

Complete the analogy about culture differences: Western culture: ________ :: ________: social group.

Express is to ________ as interpret is to ________.

Darwin believed that emotional expressions began as ________ that came to have evolutionary value because they ________.