Exam 3: Social Perception: Perceiving and Understanding Others

Bernard watched a brief video of Samantha being interviewed for a job.He reports his impression of Samantha and indicates he is not at all confident in his ratings of her.According to research,how accurate is Bernard's impression?

Typically,information about others tends to be most informative when there is (are)________.

An example of interchannel discrepancy during deception would be ________.

The relationship between how accurate first impressions are and how confident people are in their impressions of others is _________.

Jerome is playing poker with his buddies and is losing badly.It seems that everyone at the table knows when he is bluffing,just by watching his eyes.Jerome needs to learn to monitor his ________ and his ________ when he plays poker.

We might think that a waiter who flirts with a customer does so because he likes to flirt if we notice that other waiters avoid flirting with that customer.This best represents the concept of low________.

The concept of complex causality is

There are five basic channels of nonverbal communications.These are ________.

A motivational model for the self-serving bias suggests that we attribute success to internal factors because we ________.

One therapy that is based on changing attributions of depressed people involves ________.

According to the theory of correspondent inferences,what kinds of behaviors reveal the most about a person's personality traits?

The tendency to attribute my positive outcomes to internal causes and my negative outcomes to external causes is known as the ________ effect.

Kelley's theory of causal attribution focuses on ________ causes for behavior.

On her way to work one morning,Samantha was cut off by a driver who was weaving in and out of traffic,tailgating slower moving cars,racing through yellow lights,and generally driving rather erratically.According to recent research,Samantha should probably ________ because ________.

Many times,attempts at deception are thwarted because of ________ facial expressions.

We tend to perceive our own behavior as stemming largely from ________ factors;we tend to perceive the behavior of others as stemming largely from ________ factors.