Exam 3: Social Perception: Perceiving and Understanding Others

Members of collectivistic cultures are more likely to recognize more of the situational determinants of behavior than are members of individualistic cultures.As a result,members of collectivist societies are ________.

One explanation for why we feel happier after engaging in impression management in which we try to come across as positive and cheerful is due to ________.

Miller and Maner (2010)had men smell t-shirts worn by women and found that

The self-serving bias tends to be ________.

Explain the findings regarding gender differences in how people make attributions for emotional expression.

Describe Asch's early work on the idea of central traits.Then discuss how these ideas are related to other research presented on impression formation.

The theory of ________ describes how we use others' behavior as a basis for inferring their stable dispositions.

The self-defeating pattern of attributions exhibited by many depressed individuals can successfully be treated by therapies that encourage people to ________.

Based on the "what is beautiful is good" implicit personality theory,physically attractive people are thought to be __________.

Fate versus personal action is another aspect of attribution,that is,attributions one makes for one's own life events.Talk about these two perceived contributors to past events.Define "level of construal" and use it as a way of talking about how we might see the nature of past events.

One reason for the correspondence bias is that we tend to ________.

________ involves a mental representation of a person and our evaluative reactions to him or her.

Mike is applying for a job in advertising.While he is out to dinner with the interviewer,Mike pulls out and lights an expensive cigar and offers one to the interviewer.Mike is using what tactic to increase his chances of getting the job?

Describe the role that facial expressions play in our social perceptions.

Self-enhancement involves efforts to ________,while other-enhancement involves efforts to ________.

Describe the actor-observer effect.

One possible explanation for the self-serving bias is the motivational model,which states that the self-serving bias is caused by our ________.

We tend to adjust our attributions to take account for situational constraints on our own behavior ________.

One possible explanation for the self-serving bias is the cognitive model,which states that the self-serving bias is caused by our ________.

Emblems convey ________.