Exam 4: Perceiving Persons

In the Jones and Harris (1967)study, participants read essays presumably written by another student that had either been assigned or chose to write in support of a particular position.Which of the following statements is consistent with the findings of this study?

The study of social perception addresses all of the following except

Which of the following has been demonstrated by Henley's (1977)research on touching?

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

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

According to Medvec's research on counterfactual thinking among Olympic medalists, which of the following is true?

The tendency to mentally undo events or to ask "What if…?" is called

All of the following are considered "primary" emotions except

Explain Gilbert and Malone's two-step process of making attributions, and identify when in this process the fundamental attribution error occurs.

Which of the following statements best describes our current state of knowledge regarding social perception?

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

Suppose an experiment was conducted where people were asked to watch a political debate between two candidates that had been previously judged by political pundits to have been 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.It is likely that

How are adults with baby-faced facial features perceived and treated differently than adults with mature facial features? What are two explanations for these effects?

The base-rate fallacy reflects

Research by Forgas and Bower (1987)demonstrated that good moods can lead to

In Jones and Davis's correspondent inference theory, observers trying to infer whether a particular behavior corresponds to an enduring personal characteristic of the actor would ask all of the following questions except,

The desire to reduce cognitive uncertainty, which heightens the importance of first impressions, is called

Research suggests that people seem to commit the fundamental attribution error

Behavior that communicates a person's feelings without words is called

Priming refers to the tendency