Social Perception

Question 1

To express or emit nonverbal behaviour, such as smiling or patting someone the back

Answer 1

encode

Question 2

To interpret the meaning of the nonverbal behaviour other people express, such as deciding that a pat on the back was an expression of condescension and not kindness:

Answer 2

decode

Question 3

A facial expression in which one part of the face registers one emotion while another part of the face registers a different emotion

Answer 3

Affect Blend

Question 4

Culturally determined rules about which nonverbal behaviours are appropriate to display:

Answer 4

Display Rules

Question 5

Nonverbal gestures that have well-understood definitions within a given culture; they usually have direct verbal translations - such as the OK sign.

Answer 5

Emblems

Question 6

A mental shortcut

Answer 6

Schema

Question 7

A type of schema people use to group various kinds of personality traits together; for example, many people believe that someone who is kind is generous as well:

Answer 7

Implicit Personality Theory

Question 8

A description of the way in which people explain the causes of their own and other people’s behaviour:

Answer 8

Attribution Theory

Question 9

The inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about the person such as attitude, character, or personality:

Answer 9

Internal Attribution

Question 10

The inference that a person is behaving a certain way because of something about the situation he or she is in; the assumption is that most people would respond the same way in that situation:

Answer 10

External Attribution

Question 11

A theory that states that to form an attribution about what caused a person’s behaviour, we systematically note the pattern between the presence or absence of possible causal factors and whether or not the behaviour occurs:

Answer 11

Covariation Model

Question 12

Information about the extent to which other people behave the same way toward the same stimulus as the actor does

Answer 12

Consensus Information

Question 13

Information about the extent to which one particular actor behaves in the same way to different stimuli

Answer 13

Distinctiveness Information

Question 14

Information about the extend to which the behaviour between one actor and one stimulus is the same across time and circumstances:

Answer 14

Consistency Information

Question 15

The tendency to overestimate the extent to which people’s behaviour is due to internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of situational forces.

Answer 15

Fundamental Attribution Error

Question 16

the seeming importance of information that is the focus of people’s attention:

Answer 16

Perceptual Salience

Question 17

Explanations for one’s successes that credit internal, dispositional factors and explanations for one’s failures that blame external, situational factors:

Answer 17

Self-serving Attributions

Question 18

Explanations for behaviour that avoid feelings of vulnerability and mortality

Answer 18

Defensive Attributions

Question 19

The tendency to think that other people are more susceptible to attributional biases in their thinking than we are:

Answer 19

Bias blind spot