PSY 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cognitive Load, Verificationism, Classical Conditioning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3102
• Professor: Yaroslav Konar

Document Summary

Prototypical faces, how close the person is to the idea, usually average by a population and no over-exaggerated features. Yes, as shown in preferential looking experiments with six month year olds. Waist to hip ratio 0. 7 in women, 0. 9 in men. Theory driven approaches: psychological underpinnings of attraction as explained by extending existing theories into the realm of attraction. Phenomena driven approaches: driven by the existence of relationship phenomena which needs explanation. Implicit egotism: people like things that are associated with themselves. For example, evidence suggests that people are attracted more to people who share an experimental code resembling their birthday or whose names share letters with their own. We come to like others through escape conditioning where their presence helps us escape an aversive situation: classical conditioning: us ur, then cs no response. Then you pair cs and us to elicit a ur, then eventually after multiple pairings the cs elicits a cr.