PSYC 473 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Autopilot, Determinism, Speech Shadowing

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 473
• Professor: Mark Baldwin

Document Summary

Control: regulation of behavior according to our goals. 2 tasks: participants were more likely to remember objects they liked best. preferences unknowingly guide the process of attention. Focus on perceptual/cognitive processes serving as the building blocks of impression formation. Implicit process: automatic if it has these features: unintended + impossible to control + extremely efficient + able to proceed without our awareness. Perceiver lacks any consciousness that the mental processes exist. Forming impressions of people we have never met -> zero acquaintance. Eg: algore non verbal cues during the presidential debate --> appeared superior and arrogant. Lack of awareness that a nonverbal communicative exchange is occurring. Tell difference between spontaneous and rehearsed speech. Having audio alone or video alone was fairly comparable. People with both audio and video did way better --> accuracy 80% of the time. Troubles with lexical access are signs of spontaneity. Nonsemantic information: a feeling the person is having trouble producing in speech.