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1

The way we seek to know and understand other persons and events is called ___________.
A)self-perception
B)social perception
C)social knowledge
D)self-presentation
2

A conscious and deliberate effort to shape other people's impressions in order to achieve ulterior goals is know as ________________.
A)self-handicapping
B)strategic self-presentation
C)sandbagging
D)self-effort
3

Sociologist Erving Goffman contended that social interaction is similar to a ___________________ with people playing prescribed roles like actors on stage. People generally do not question the validity of others' presentations of their selves; however, when an interaction is not accepted as being truthful the play is disrupted. An example of this is former President Bill Clinton's denial of his sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky.
A)'podium performance'
B)'social-denial performance'
C)'theatrical performance'
D)none of the above
4

In an interview, you would most likely use the following impression tactic: ____________.
A)the Self-Praise Tactic
B)self-promotion
C)modesty presentation
D)none of the above
5

An example of __________________ would be if you were meeting someone for the first time and stepped on their toe.
A)self-presentation
B)modesty
C)embarrassment
D)all of the above
6

The tendency for the information received later in an interaction to weigh more heavily on one's overall impression than the initial information is called _____________.
A)positive bias reaction
B)negative bias reaction
C)primacy effect
D)recency effect
7

Nonverbal behavior is communicating feelings and intentions without words. An example would be ____________.
A)a smile
B)one's walk
C)tears
D)all of the above
8

Meta-analytic studies indicate that females are more adept than males in ______________ nonverbal communication.
A)coding
B)decoding
C)performing
D)none of the above
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 either to provide an excuse for failure or to enhance success is called _______________.
A)self-biasing
B)self-concept
C)self-handicapping
D)self indulgence
11

External attribution is _______________________.
A)an attribution that locates the cause of an event to internal factors
B)an attribution that locates the cause of an event to personality traits
C)an attribution that locates the cause of an event to moods
D)none of the above
12

The tendency 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)all of the above
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)none of the above
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)either a or b
D)neither a nor b







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