Exam 4: Perceiving Persons

Suppose an experiment was conducted where people were asked to watch a political debate between two candidates,and that the debate had been previously judged by political pundits to be a tie.Half of the participants saw a videotape of the debate where the camera focused on candidate A.The other half of the participants saw a videotape of the debate where the camera focused on candidate B.Which of the following is most likely to happen?

In which of the following situations will Elizabeth be least likely to make correspondent inferences from Bob's behaviour?

Different attributes are ascribed to people who have baby-faced features and to those who have mature facial features.According to your textbook,which of the following theories has received support from a brain imaging study?

Which of the following is one explanation for the primacy effect?

Which of the following is one way to defend our belief in a just world when we observe a victim suffering?

Which of the following can be categorized as a source of "raw data" for social perception?

Joe is leaving his job at Vandalay Industries.According to correspondent inference theory,in which of the following scenarios would you learn the most about Joe?

According to the covariation principle,when are consistent behaviours attributed to the stimulus?

Adults with mature facial features are typically viewed as having which off the following attributes?

Which of the following supports Gilbert's two-step model of social perception?

On what cues should social perceivers focus in order to try to detect if someone is trying to deceive others? Conversely,on what cues do social perceivers typically focus,and why are these cues less revealing?

According to research by Zebrowitz and her colleagues on facial appearance,how are people who have baby-faced features most likely to be perceived?

According to the research on detection of deception,when does an observer have the best chance of accurately detecting whether an actor is lying?

Fritz is a social psychologist who specializes in studying the processes of social perception.Given this interest,which of the following research questions would Fritz be least likely to address?

A politician asks her speechwriter to write a speech that supports same-sex marriage.Under which of the following circumstances would the fundamental attribution error be most evident?

Which people are most accurate at detecting deception?

Based on what we know about the communication channels that seem to best reveal whether someone is lying,which of the following specific attributes would be most informative?

While travelling around the world,Sven shows various people pictures of men and women from his hometown who are smiling and frowning,and he asks these people to infer what emotions the individuals in the pictures are experiencing.According to the research on perceptions of primary emotions,which of the following is Sven most likely to find?

Which of the following does the belief in a just world contribute to?

According to Gilbert's two-step model of social perception,why should distraction make the fundamental attribution error more likely to happen?