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

When people make attributions,research has suggested that they rely less on consensus information than the covariation model suggests,and rely more heavily on

____ refers to a facial expression in which one part of the face registers one emotion and another part of the face registers a different emotion.

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 ____.

Describe the role of culture in the fundamental attribution error.How prevalent is this error across cultures,and why do these differences exist?

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

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

The actor/observer difference is the tendency to see other people's behavior as ____ while making ____ attributions about our own behavior.

Based on information from your text about how accurately people decode messages transmitted different ways,if you have an emotionally laden message to convey accurately,which mode of communication is likely to lead to the worst decoding?

The authors of your text report a story of a homeless man who spent his only quarter to find out why a couple (whose love letters he'd read)had broken up.This story demonstrates

____ theory provides a description of how people explain the causes of their own and others' behaviors.

Mirror neurons are brain cells that respond when we perform actions and when

We make self-serving attributions for all of the following reasons except

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

In honor of Rosa Parks's contribution to the Civil Rights Movement,the seat behind the driver on buses in major cities was reserved for one day,and people were asked not to sit there.Some people did actually sit in this seat.Making the assumption that these people were prejudiced or racist is an example of the

According to recent research,why does culture influence our tendency to make internal versus external attributions?

One reason for the actor/observer difference is that actors have ____ information about themselves than about others.

Recall that a number of researchers have found that participants from Asian cultures are less likely than participants from Western cultures to make the fundamental attribution error.These findings suggest that

According to Kelley's covariation model,when consistency is low,people make

In honor of Rosa Parks's contribution to the Civil Rights Movement,the seat behind the driver on buses in major cities was reserved for one day,and people were asked not to sit there.Some people did actually sit in this seat.When a reporter asked these "sitters" to explain their behavior,he found that

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