Exam 4: Perceiving Persons

A network of assumptions that people make when forming impressions based on traits and behaviors is called

_______ involves the tendency to mentally undo events or to ask "What if…?"

The concept of the availability heuristic is illustrated when you

According to Kahneman's (2011) work on judgment and decision making, System 1 is to ____ as System 2 is to ____.

____ is the process by which people attribute humanlike mental states to various animate and inanimate objects, including other people.

Rosenthal and Jacobson's (1968) study, Pygmalion in the Classroom , found that

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

Jerry makes frequent eye contact with the person to whom he is talking. This is most likely to elicit a(n)

What has been shown to improve social perceiver's ability to evaluate covariation?

The tendency to think that most victims of Hurricane Sandy were irresponsible and naive for not evacuating their homes before the storm hit is most likely to result from which of the following tendencies?

Suppose an experiment was conducted where people were asked to watch a political debate between two candidates who have been tied. 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. It is likely that

What does fallacy reflect?

Kelley's theory of attribution suggests that, in trying to discern personal characteristics from behavioral evidence, people

____ gets activated when we sniff a disgusting odor as well as when we watch others sniffing the disgusting odor.

People most often and easily differentiate each other based on which of the following dimensions?

The finding that moderately positive traits can dilute the impact of extremely positive traits on impressions is most consistent with the

Based on research on counterfactual thinking, in which of the following scenarios is Jamal most likely to wonder what life might have been like had he been richer?

LeBron is eating at a restaurant on a first date when his date spills spaghetti all over his lap. Which of the following conclusions would LeBron be most likely to draw if he commits the fundamental attribution error?

Social perceivers are most likely to agree in their judgments of which of the following traits?

According to Gray and colleagues (2007), what are the two dimensions on which people "perceive minds"?