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

According to Daniel Gilbert,we typically use two steps in making attributions.The first step involves ____,and the second step involves ____.

Because the knowledge that we are mortal and that bad things can happen to us is very difficult to accept,we often make ____ attributions.

Complete the analogy about culture differences: Western culture: ____:: ____: social being.

According to the authors of your text,how frequently should people make internal attributions to explain other people's behavior?

If a scientist were to examine an fMRI and see that the mirror neurons were active,what would she be unable to distinguish in that person's mental processes?

An implicit personality theory is

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 concept were they examining in this study?

Manaka is from Japan,and just won a gold medal at the Olympics.When interviewed about what she thinks contributed to her success,she is most likely to answer

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

The neurological basis for feeling what others feel,empathy,lies in

According to the authors,it's not easy to understand and explain other people's behaviors because

How have researchers collected evidence that there are six major human emotions conveyed via facial expressions?

Express is to ____ as interpret is to ____.

On your birthday,you arrive home and are overjoyed to find a large bouquet of flowers from your best friend.Your eyes grow wide and a broad smile crosses your face.You laugh in delight.This example best illustrates the use of nonverbal behavior to

Why is the fundamental attribution error called "fundamental," and why does it occur?

"Jen's bicycle was stolen yesterday," Jason said,"and that's why she's so cranky today." Jason has just used an ____ to explain the cause of Jen's behavior.

The tendency to assume that human behavior is caused by the kind of person who enacts it was labeled as "the fundamental attribution error" because it is

Robin Akert and Dane Archer (1991,1998)have found that participants who view and decode interactions in the Social Interpretations Task (SIT)perform significantly better than chance when answering such questions as "Which woman is the mother of the baby?" According to these researchers,people do relatively well because

You're in Hong Kong reading the morning newspaper,and you notice a headline about a double murder that took place overnight.A suspect is in custody.Which of the following headlines is most likely to accompany the story?

Based on a study by Lassiter and his colleagues (2007)examining how judges and police officers viewed tapes of interrogations,if you were going to be interrogated by a detective,you would not want the camera pointed