When You Play High Stakes Poker, It Is Silly to Tell

question 117

Multiple Choice

When you play high stakes poker, it is silly to tell your opponents that you have a good hand. However, particularly good poker players say they can read other players' "tells"-the subtle and unintentional facial expressions, mannerisms, and body language that reveal what they are thinking. What would Erving Goffman call tells?

• A) expressions given off
• B) the dual nature of the self
• C) expressions given
• D) the game stage
• E) the social construction of reality

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Definitions:

Naturalistic Observation

A research paradigm in which an observer observes participants in familiar everyday contexts while ideally remaining as unobtrusive as possible.

Experiment

A test of a scientific theory in which the researcher manipulates the independent variable.

Experiment

A method of research in the sciences or social sciences in which a controlled procedure is conducted to test a hypothesis, observe effects, and establish cause and effect relationships.

Cause-and-Effect Relationships

A connection between two events where one event (the cause) makes another event happen (the effect), indicating a direct association.