Exam 3: Social Perception: Perceiving and Understanding Others

________ includes the processes we use to try to understand other people.

Although Sarah could afford any car she wants,she drives an ageing Volkswagen.Sam,Sarah's friend,thinks that this choice says something about Sarah's personality.Sam clearly agrees with ________.

Describe some of the nonverbal cues that are associated with deception.

From MyPsychLab SIMULATE: "Impressions and Expressions" (To access this asset go to MyPsychLab and click on "Course Documents." Under the heading "Index of Multimedia," click on the "here" link.Select Chapter 3,Social Perception: Perceiving and Understanding Others,and click on "Find Now." For the Chapter 3 items,click on the "Simulate" item called "Impressions and Expressions.") You were asked to indicate your preferences for certain pieces of art.The exercise was similar to Tajfel's experiment--identify what he called those experiments.What is the general idea behind the exercise? How does it demonstrate a theoretical advance beyond the Robber's Cave study?

Jason has been told that he should make sure to shake hands with the interviewer when he applies for a job,and that this handshake should be firm,vigorous,and last a long time.According to recent research (Chaplin et al. ,2000),if Jason follows this advice,the interviewer may think that Jason is ________.

Trista's teacher just returned student essays to the class.Trista's teacher has written several positive comments throughout her paper and given Trista an A+ on the assignment.Trista is likely to believe her grade reflects ________ because of ________.

The theory of correspondent inference suggests that we try to infer other people's traits from key aspects of their ________.

There are two major categories of techniques people employ in the process of impression management.Name,define,and describe these two tactics.

When touching is considered appropriate,it often produces ________ reactions in the person being touched.

There are three dimensions that impact how we make causal attributions.Internal and External attributions represent one of these dimensions of attributions.Please define and explain this dimension as well as the remaining two dimensions we consider when making attributions.

_____ refers to small amounts of information about others we use to form first impressions of them.

Nonverbal cues are often deemed to be irrepressible because they are ________.

Discuss correspondence bias and the actor-observer effect.

The "fundamental attribution error" refers to our tendency to ________.

People who suffer from depression tend to attribute their failures to ________ and their successes to ________.

The extent to which a person's reaction to a particular event differs from their reaction to similar other events is an indication of ________.

The process whereby we seek to know and understand others is called ________,and frequently makes use of ________.

The process we use to try and understand other people is known as ________.

Describe the five basic channels of nonverbal behavior and how the ways in which each impacts our understanding of others.

Jackie took longer to reply to certain questions and the pitch of her voice rose considerably;these aspects of her ________ gave away that that she was lying.