PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Base Rate Fallacy, Miway, Representativeness Heuristic
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Nonverbal- the way in which people communicate, intentionally or unintentionally, without words: multiple channels (ex. Kinesics- facial expressions + body movements, eye gaze, haptics, proxemics, vocalics, chronemics, physical appearance, etc. : several functions (ex. Provide information, augment verbal communication, regulate interactions, presentational, etc. ) How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgements and decisions. Controlled thinking- conscious, intentional, voluntary, effortful requires mental energy o: one purpose is to check automatic thinking ie. when unusual events occur. The attempt to avoid thinking about something a person would prefer to forget, but sometimes it doesn"t work. Ironic processing- when the suppression leads to the opposite of what we intended (trying to stop thinking about someone leads to you only thinking about that person: ex. If you are tired/preoccupied, you cannot engage in the controlled o part (automatic process runs wild)
