Describe the role that facial expressions play in our social perceptions

What will be an ideal response?


Answer:
Facial expressions convey information about an individual's emotions. The expression of basic emotions, such as fear or joy, may be very nearly universal regardless of culture, but recent research indicates that we rely on situational cues to interpret expressions and that the specific meaning of a particular expression may be influenced by culture.

Psychology

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Dani woke up and had a pimple on her cheek. She pretended to be sick, so she didn't have to go to school because she was sure everyone was going to see it and talk about her. What aspect of adolescent thinking is Dani experiencing?

A. the imaginary audience B. the personal fable C. metacognition D. hypothetical-deductive reasoning

Psychology

Which of the following describes the early behaviorist view of higher mental processes?

a. Only stimuli and responses were believed to exist. b. Identifying such processes was the underlying motivation of behavioral research. c. Such processes were actually studied as "stimuli". d. The scientific value of such processes was rejected.

Psychology

Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

If ?0 = 1, and a 95% confidence interval around m is [–2.6, 0.53], then we can reject a two-tailed test of H0: ?1 = ?0, when ? = .05.

Psychology

_______________ increases across middle childhood

a. Cross-sex friendship selection b. Cross-age friend selection c. New "best friend" selection d. Gender segregation

Psychology