PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fidel Castro, Cognitive Load, Belief Perseverance
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Where do we get info about our social world: sources of social info - interpersonal gap. Explains why we can"t directly draw conclusions on other people, we have to make inferences. Encoding is how you translate message into set of observable behs. Decoding - recipient ahs to interpret sender"s action and infer sender"s intentions based on their actions. Are intentions have to be encoding and then recipient has to decode. Actions - want to be funny - might tell a joke. Recipient ahs to decode your actions, your joke. Maybe loud so can"t understand what you said. See you are smiling, so thinks you might have said something funny so laugh: communication. The way in which people communicate, intentionally or unintentionally, w/our words. Kinesics (facial expression, body movements), eye gaze, haptics, proxemics, vocalics, chronemics, physical appearance. Dominance + romance (love + affection) by eye gaze.
