Exam 4: Perceiving Persons

While traveling around the world, Teun 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, Teun should find that

Which of the following traits would produce the most extreme impression of a target?

Research on motivational biases suggests that if you are a people person, you will

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

The process by which people attribute humanlike mental states to various animate and inanimate objects is called

In research by Pryor and Merluzzi (1985), the script for a first date

The universal dimensions of social cognition are

While on an airplane, John completes a crossword puzzle in which interrupt, rude, and blunt are all answers.After landing, John gets in line to speak to someone at the ticket counter, but the ticket agent does not notice him because he is too busy talking with another employee.Research on priming suggests that John will be likely to

Which of the following research findings is most consistent with Darwin's hypothesis that the ability to interpret emotion from facial expressions has survival value?

Negative information about a target

Everyone you know seems to love the TV show The Apprentice.You're a huge fan of reality TV as well, as you never miss an episode of The Amazing Race, American Idol, or Project Runway.But every time you watch The Apprentice, you have the same reaction: you hate it with a passion.According to Kelley's (1967)covariation theory of attribution, your dislike of this show would be

Vernell is being interviewed for a job.Though it isn't really true, the interviewer suspects that Vernell is incompetent.Because the interviewer doesn't expect much from Vernell, he sits far away from her during the interview, interrupts her frequently, and seems distracted when she speaks.As a result, Vernell becomes nervous, starts to stutter, and loses her train of thought several times.The interviewer's final impression is that Vernell is, as he suspected, incompetent.This impression is most likely the result of

What is the adaptive significance of being able to identify the emotion of disgust in others?

Scripts are often culture-specific.This means that

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

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?

Imagine that you are grading the exams of two students, Michael and Fredo.They both get only half the questions correct.However, Michael gets most of his questions right on the first half of the test, whereas Fredo gets most of his questions right on the last half of the test.According to Asch's work on primacy effects in impression formation, you would be likely to conclude that

According to correspondent inference theory, correspondent inferences are most likely to occur when a person's behavior is

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

Research conducted by Hall and colleagues suggests that we tend to believe that dominant people touch others more than do subordinate people, and behavioral data indicate that