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1
___________ is the process through which we begin to understand other persons.
A)self-perception
B)social perception
C)social knowledge
D)social awareness
2
A deliberate effort to shape other people's impressions to achieve specific goals is known as ________________.
A)self-handicapping
B)strategic self-presentation
C)self-efficacy
D)self-masking
3
Sociologist Erving Goffman compared social interactions to a ___________________.
A)'podium performance'
B)'social-denial performance'
C)'theatrical performance'
D)none of the above
4
During a job interview, people are likely to engage in ____________.
A)self-praise tactic
B)self-promotion
C)modesty presentation
D)self-handicapping
5
__________________ would likely result if you were meeting someone for the first time and spilled a drink on them.
A)self-presentation
B)modesty
C)embarrassment
D)all of the above
6
_______________ refers to fact that the information that we receive later in an interaction is likely to contribute more significantly to one's overall impression than the initial information we receive.
A)primary effect
B)regency effect
C)primacy effect
D)recency effect
7
Nonverbal behavior is communicating feelings and intentions without words. An example would be all of the following, EXCEPT ____________.
A)smiling
B)one's posture
C)waving
D)yelling
8
Meta-analytic studies on nonverbal communication indicate that females are more adept than males in ______________ it.
A)mimicking
B)decoding
C)describing
D)modeling
9
Internal attributions can include ___________.
A)moods
B)effort
C)abilities
D)all of the above
10
A self-presentation strategy in which a person creates obstacles to his or her own performance in order to provide an excuse for failure or to enhance success is called _______________.
A)self-biasing
B)self-concept
C)self-handicapping
D)self-loathing
11
When we attribute our success to luck, we are making a(n) _______________________.
A)internal attribution
B)irrelevant attribution
C)positive attribution
D)external attribution
12
The tendency that many people have to make internal attributions over external attributions in explaining the behavior of others is called ________________.
A)judgement attributional error
B)knowledge error of attribution
C)attributional bias
D)fundamental attribution error
13
Soloman Asch believed that certain traits exerted a disproportionate influence on people's overall impressions, causing them to assume the presence of other traits. He called these dominant traits _____________.
A)central traits
B)features traits
C)dependent traits
D)distinctive traits
14
The tendency to assign an external locus of causality for our positive outcomes and an internal locus for our negative outcomes is called ___________.
A)self-serving bias
B)cause and effect error
C)fundamental attribution error
D)self-enhancement bias
15
People seem to be biased toward perceiving others in a __________ light when they learn that someone has ____________ traits.
A)negative; positive
B)positive; negative
C)neutral; positive
D)neutral; negative







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