Exam 4: Perceiving Persons

Ellen is at the mall doing some shopping when she runs into one of her closest friends,Vicki.Vicki is with a friend visiting from out of town and introduces that friend to Ellen.Research on impression formation suggests that

People most often and easily differentiate each other based on which dimension?

The finding that people's initial impressions of someone affect their interpretation of subsequent information about that person is most consistent with the

Research on the impact of ideological motives on attribution indicates that a liberal is most likely to explain poverty as due to

What do psychologists mean when they describe a judgment of another person as based on "thin slices?"

Fritz is a social psychologist who specializes in studying the processes of social perception.Given this interest,Fritz is least likely to specialize in which research question?

What are the "primary emotions" and how are they perceived in different cultures around the planet?

All of the following could be categorized as sources of "raw data" for a study of social perception except

Implicit personality theories suggest that if we know Yael is an extrovert,we would

Participants in one study rated fictional food additives that were more difficult to pronounce as more hazardous to health.These results demonstrate that people

Research on the impact of ideological motives on attribution indicates that a conservative is most likely to explain poverty as due to

Which emotion is not considered to be a primary emotion?

According to the covariation principle,a personal attribution is most likely to result when consistency is______________,consensus is______________,and distinctiveness is______________.

Vito finished first in the school spelling bee,Fabrizio finished second,and Luigi finished third.The first-place winner______________gets a cash prize and the opportunity to compete at the regional spelling bee,but the others get nothing.Which of the following is most likely to occur?

Cross-cultural research on perception of emotion,such as that conducted by Elfenbein and Ambady (2002),indicates that

Which trait would produce the most extreme impression of a target?

Traits that suggest the presence of other traits and that exert a powerful influence on final impressions are called

Reena meets Rachael for the first time.Rachael is perceived as smart,funny,sociable,but rude.Although Reena perceived Rachael to have many positive qualities,her rudeness outweighed them,and Reena forms a negative impression of Rachael.This illustrates

Research using bicultural participants,such as China-born students attending college in the U.S. ,indicates that

All of the following have been shown in research on priming except that priming