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

Based on research by Fincham on attributions within married couples presented in your text,consider the following couple: Dean claims that every time Erica does something kind it is just because she wants to impress his mother,and every time she does something rude he says it is because she is a mean person.What kind of relationship are they most likely to have?

According to the authors of your text,culture can be considered an all-encompassing,higher-level

The authors of your text suggest that even infants express the six major emotions.However,some emotions such as pride or shame cannot be expressed until children have learned that

What is the relationship between nonverbal behavior,implicit personality theory,and attribution theory?

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?

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

Are implicit personality theories universal (common across cultures)or are they culture-specific? Describe a study that provides evidence for your position.

In what sense are implicit personality theories a special kind of schema?

When people are distracted,they are more likely to fall prey to the fundamental attribution error.This occurs because internal attributions arise from ____,whereas external attributions arise from ____.

The actor/observer pattern of attributions does not manifest itself when actors explain their own successes.Why?

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.In this experiment,how could people have avoided correspondence bias? They could have assumed

Ingrid has had a few interactions with Chinese students at her college and thinks that they are "hard to read" because they do not use facial expressions "clearly" relative to Americans she interacts with.Such experiences illustrate

Heider assumed that people generally preferred internal over external attributions.This early suggestion has been borne out by later research on

According to research by Markus and his colleagues (2006),American Olympic gold medal winners are more likely to attribute their win to ____ than Japanese gold medal winners.

Research by Becker and his colleagues (2007)presented by the authors of your text,found that it was easier for people to decode the emotion of ____ in men.

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?

Why do the authors of your text refer to the actor/observer difference as "an interesting twist on the fundamental attribution error"?

____ attribution is to person to as ____ attribution is to situation.

Students in the United States seldom applaud after a lecture,whereas students in Europe often applaud or rap their knuckles on their desks.This cultural difference reflects the power of ____ to influence nonverbal communication.

According to the authors of your text,individuals from a(n) ____ culture would be less likely to express feelings of shame in public.