Exam 5: Personality Judgment

Self-fulfilling prophecies are more technically known as ________.

Match the most applicable stage of the Realistic Accuracy Model with each hypothetical successful or failed judgment. -A friend confesses that he has a messy room,but you discount this information.

Which of the following was NOT mentioned in the textbook as a potential moderator of accuracy?

Match the most applicable stage of the Realistic Accuracy Model with each hypothetical successful or failed judgment. -A judge accurately identifies another person's trait.

In a study of social expectancies,Snyder,Tanke,and Berscheid (1977)found that if male participants were shown a photograph of an attractive woman and told they would be interacting with her by telephone,the female participant they actually spoke with ________.

According to the text,if peers based judgments on reputation and not observation,then researchers should find ________.

Consider the following scenario: A child cries for his father to take him to the park while they are at the library.Which of the following represents a likely reason that accurate judgment of the child's openness to experience might fail?

According to research described in the textbook,about how often did the more "competent" looking candidate win in the 2004 senate races?

Research on intellectual and social expectancies demonstrates that ________.

Andersen (1984)found that the quality of information affected the accuracy of personality judgments.According to the results of this study,information obtained from which actions would most likely lead to a social impression that corresponds to the target's self-assessment?

Which of the following attributes were consistently related to being a good judge of personality in older research?

Imagine that judgments of extraversion made on the first day of college correlate with the number of parties that students attend over the course of their four years of college.Researchers would therefore say that these judgments have ________.

Describe the four steps of the Realistic Accuracy Model.Apply those steps to the accurate judgment of the trait of honesty.

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that accuracy matters?

According to the text,________ does not seem to significantly improve as judges acquire more information,whereas ________ does seem to improve considerably.

According to research that shows a link between a trait's observability and the accuracy with which it is judged,which of the following traits would be easiest to judge accurately?

What might be an effect of expectancies in real life?

What is constructivism,and why does this philosophy preclude the evaluation of the accuracy of personality judgments? Describe the critical realist alternative to this point of view.How does this perspective enable research concerning the accuracy of personality judgments?

In a series of studies about intellectual expectancies,Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968)found that schoolchildren randomly identified as "bloomers" showed an average IQ increase of about 15 points by the end of the school year.These studies demonstrated ________.

What does recent research suggest about the validity of first impressions?