PSYC 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cognitive Load, Social Desirability Bias, Collectivism
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Communication between individuals that does not involve the content of spoken language. Relies on an unspoken language of facial expressions, eye contact and body language. Chapter 3: social perception: perceiving and understanding others. Two types of nonverbal cues: visual cues, vocal cues, e. g. , stuttering, pitch of voice amount of time to respond, linguistic style. Lie detection training can be effective e. g. , movements, eye contact, smiles. Aspects of speech apart form the meaning of the words employed. In addition to wanting to know how a person acted, social psychologists want to know hwy a person acted a certain way: attribution: The process through which we seek to identify the causes of behaviour and gain knowledge about stable traits and dispositions: theory of correspondent interference: A theory of describing how we use other"s behaviour as a basis for inferring their stable dispositions (i. e. , what they are really like as a person)
