PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pluralistic Ignorance, Chronemics, Kinesics
Document Summary
Read textbook on how culture explains the social world. Podcast assigned to today"s lecture: secondhand information and false beliefs. Sources of social information: direct experience with the social world, people. Communication: process of using words, sounds, signs or behaviors to exchange or express information, can be intentional or no-intentional, verbal, nonverbal, the way in which people communicate, intentionally, or unintentionally without words, multiple channels, ex. Kinesics (facial expressions, body movements, gestures (thumbs up), eye gaze, haptic/touch, proxemics (interpersonal distance), vocalic (aspects of speech, volume), chronemics (rate of speech (quick/slow), physical appearance and clothing) Communication gaps can leave errors in receiving accurate information. Making inferences based on physical appearance: almost instantaneously, we make snap judgments about people are like based on their faces, use very little information to make our judgments, ex. Making judgments in a split second based on a little bit of information like facial features: predict consensus (agreement), but may not be accurate.
