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

Nonverbal behavior is used for all of the following except

If you use the internet,you are probably familiar with emoticons: facial expressions displayed using a combination of typographic figures,e.g.,:-)for a smile.Asian countries have their own set of emoticons; in these (which are viewed without having to turn one's head),there are different smiling facial figures for a man smiling (^_^)and a woman smiling (^ .^),since in Japan,women are not supposed to exhibit a wide,uninhibited smile.This difference between the men's and women's emoticons in Japan is due to a(n)

Harry is a child who recently learned that there are consequences when he fulfills the expectations set forth by his parents.Which emotion is Harry most likely to have recently begun experiencing?

Contemporary researchers have collected evidence that naturalist Charles Darwin (1872)was correct when he asserted that facial expressions are

Research by Fincham has found that couples who are happy in their marriages make very different attributions for their partners' behaviors than couples who are unhappy.Specifically,couples in happy marriages make ____,while couples in unhappy marriages make ____.

The Social Interpretations Task (SIT)is a research tool used by Archer and Akert and discussed in your text.Which is the best description of the SIT?

Paul Ekman and Walter Friesen (1971)collected convincing evidence that facial expressions are universal.In their research,they studied

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

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

All of the following except the fact that ____ can interfere with people's ability to decode others' facial expressions.

After losing a Little League softball game between the Rockets and the Tigers,what is the coach of the losing Rockets likely to say?

All of the following are nonverbal behaviors except

Larry sees a group of people weeping,with frowns on their faces and their eyes turned down.Larry ____ their expressions to understand that they are feeling sadness.

Results from cross-cultural studies of impression formation indicate that

Judy forms a circle with her thumb and forefinger to communicate to her sister that everything is okay.Although in America this is a common gesture,it may be interpreted differently elsewhere in the world.What kind of gesture is this?

Adrian Furham and his colleagues (1989,1993)have gathered preliminary evidence suggesting that in societies characterized by large inequities (e.g.,extremes in poverty and wealth),citizens are more likely to endorse just-world beliefs.These findings illustrate

All of the following are examples of correspondence bias except

Even if an observer has information about an actor's situation available,why might the observer still be likely to commit the fundamental attribution error?

According to research conducted by Susskind and his colleagues (2008)presented by the authors of your text,the emotions of ____ and ____ involve opposite facial muscle movements.

Recall that Shelley Taylor and Susan Fiske (1975)conducted a clever experiment in which a group of participants observed a scripted conversation between two male confederates.Some could see both of the men; others could see the face of only one or the other man.When asked questions about the two confederates (e.g.,who had taken the lead in the conversation),participants who had a clear view of both men thought they were equally influential,whereas those who faced one or the other thought that the man whose face they saw was more influential.These results demonstrated that