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

According to the authors of your text,people in Eastern cultures more closely resemble ____ and people in Western cultures resemble ____.

In talking to an acquaintance of yours,you note that she never looks you directly in the eye.To figure out whether this is because she is shy,because she dislikes you,or because she comes from a culture that discourages direct eye contact,you would probably

A group of pedestrians is standing on a corner,waiting for the light to change.A driver runs a red light and narrowly misses another car.According to work on the two-step process of making attributions,who is most likely to point to how quickly the light changed from amber to red when explaining the near accident?

The correspondence bias is also known as the

Nora has been blind since birth,and has never seen a smile,frown,or furrowed brow.At age three,how capable would she be of expressing emotions using the facial expressions of sighted people?

What kind of attribution do people most often make about others?

Karen is on the phone when her roommate enters the room.Karen signals to her roommate to be quiet by pointing to the phone,shaking her head,and placing a raised index finger in front of her mouth.This example illustrates the use of nonverbal communication to ____ verbal communication.

Wan is a Korean student and Jim is an American student.Both take part in an experiment in which they listen to another student read aloud her essay,knowing that this other student's essay was on an assigned position.Then they are asked to indicate what this other student really believes.Before listening to the other student's essay,Jim,but not Wan,had to write an essay in which he was assigned to take a particular side and even given some prepared statements to include in his essay.Based on the results of cross-cultural research on the correspondence bias,you would expect that under these conditions

Making attributions about others' behaviors is a multi-step process.How many steps are involved? What attribution do people tend to initially make,and when would individuals proceed past the initial step?

If a person has mirror neurons that are damaged or missing,he or she would most likely have trouble

The text suggests that the fundamental attribution error occurs because information about the situational causes of behavior is

According to the authors of your text,people in ____ cultures tend to have an analytic thinking style.

Your sister comes in and announces that she has just gotten engaged to the man she has been dating for the past two months.You feel a mix of surprise,happiness,and concern,and this shows on your face.The expression your face displays is known as a(n)

Ed and Violet just saw their professor slip and fall.Ed thinks,"What a klutz!",but Violet thinks,"I bet there was water on the floor and she slipped on it." In this case,Ed made an ____ and Violet made an ____.

If people do not have all three types of information necessary (according to the covariation model),what do people do in order to make attributions?

How are implicit personality theories developed?

The social psychologist Fritz Heider is historically important in the field for his contribution of

In a study by Hedden and his colleagues (2008)examining brain activity,East Asians and European Americans underwent an fMRI while focusing on either a target or the context of a picture.In which circumstance did European Americans exert more attention?

Darwin believed that emotional expressions began as ____ that came to have evolutionary value because they ____.

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.Which group of participants spent more time looking at people in the periphery?