Exam 3: Social Perception: Perceiving and Understanding Others

Chelsea and Anita are both required to give a speech supporting a woman's right to abortion on demand in a public-speaking class.Anita believes that Chelsea gave her speech because she is a strong supporter of the right-to-choose movement.Anita is neutral on the topic and only gave her speech because it was assigned.Anita's belief about Chelsea is probably a result of ________.

We are MOST likely to believe that the behaviors of others are suggestive of their ________ when it is seen to ________.

Nonverbal cues are often useful in detecting ________.

In general,we ________ in our detection of deception.

Deborah has just spent a great deal of money on a new fur coat.When she showed it to her husband,she asked if he liked it.Without hesitation,her husband responded by saying,"Yes.It is beautiful." Before he spoke,however,a slight frown appeared on his face for less than a second.This might indicate that he is concealing his true feelings from his wife and is known as ________.

Explain what is meant by self-defeating patterns of attributions.What therapy is used to change depressed individuals self-defeating pattern of attributions?

Facial expressions are ________ across all cultures and carry information about other people's motives.

Findings examining implicit personality theories regarding birth order are shown to provide some evidence of self-fulfilling prophecy.One study demonstrated that first-born children

Mary sees Greta trip while walking down an outside flight of steps,and thinks to herself,"What a clumsy person!" Five minutes later,though,Mary trips on the same flight of steps,and says to an onlooker,"It's very icy today!" This is an illustration of the ________.

Research has found that the correspondence bias operates more ____ for ________.

Suppose we are trying to discern whether an individual is lying based on his or her verbal and nonverbal information and cues.Which of the following statements BEST describes how well we will be able to judge whether this individual is lying?

Certain facial expressions are recognized as representing ________ underlying emotions in ________ different cultures.

People from cultures with strong beliefs in causal complexity are more likely to attribute important events to _____.

People use a number of different techniques to try and manage the impression they make on others.These techniques generally fall into one of two broad categories: ________ and ________.

Our tendency to believe that our own behavior reflects external causes and that other people's behavior reflects internal causes is known as ________.

Participants in an experiment who were exposed to someone who lies in an interview were ________ to ________ in a later conversation.

Impression formation is the process by which ________.

________ consists of the efforts individuals make to create favorable first impressions on others.

Jen and all of her friends are afraid of her neighbor's dog.However,Jen is not afraid of any other dog.The attribution that follows from this information is ________.

Jeremy has always been a very eloquent speaker and speech-writer.For his college oratory class,Jeremy was recently required to write and deliver a speech in support of capital punishment.Although Jeremy is strongly opposed to the death penalty,he wrote and delivered a very powerful speech in support of the death penalty.As a result,his professor and several students now believe Jeremy actually supports the death penalty.Why might this be the case?