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

From the point of view of Fritz Heider's (1958)"naïve" or "common sense" psychology,people are much like ____ in trying to understand others' behaviors.

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 do not match,Japanese participants were most likely to

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

The authors of your text suggest people from both Eastern and Western cultures share which aspect of the correspondence bias?

One assumption of the covariation model is that people make causal attributions

Chantelle's family is hosting a Japanese exchange student,Yukiko,at their home for a year.Chantelle notices that Yukiko hides her smile behind her hands.After reading Chapter 4 (Social Perception),Chantelle learns that Yukiko hides her smile because

Kruger and colleagues (2005)conducted a study examining how well people decoded messages transmitted face-to-face,by voice only,or via email.Based on the results of this study,who did better at decoding the emotional statements,regardless of how they were transmitted?

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

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

Based on research by Archer and Akert (1980)presented in your text,how well do people do at the Social Interpretations Task (SIT)? They get about ____ correct.

When we make note of an actor's personality,attitudes,values,or character,we are forming a(n)

Political commentator and humorist Molly Ivens made "Bubba" famous.Bubba is a loud,beer-drinking,swaggering man,simple in his tastes and thinking.This constellation of "Bubba traits" represents a(n)

Recall that even when participants in an experiment conducted by E.E.Jones and Victor Harris (1967)were told that people were assigned to write an essay sympathetic to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro,they still were willing to assume that the essay reflected the writer's true "pro-Castro" attitudes.These findings illustrate

Suppose a certain student,Nathan,falls asleep during every chemistry class.Suppose further that Nathan is the only one who falls asleep in this class,and that he falls asleep in all of his other classes.According to Kelley's covariation theory of attribution,how will people explain his behavior (falling asleep)?

Mirror neurons are activated ____ when we see someone express emotion.

The processes of decoding nonverbal communications and using implicit personality theories are both examples of ____ processes.

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

Based on the idea that nonverbal behaviors may be more honest than words,the Transportation Agency implemented a program in which they deployed hundreds of security agents to

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

What are consistency,consensus,and distinctiveness information,and how do they combine to yield internal,external,and situational attributions? Give an example.