Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes -Bonobo, Problem Solving, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Elizabeth Campbell

Document Summary

Victor: leaned to read and write some words but never learned to speak. Genie: speaking ability stalled at around 2-3 year old level. Dominique: made quick progress, and was capable of fully acquiring language. Garden path sentences: information necessary to interpret sentence usually comes at the end. Illustrates risk of interpreting sentence as it arrives. Means end analysis: identify differences between current state and goal state. Deductive reasoning: top down, from general to specific. Detecting liars: liars cannot control nonverbal behaviours, liars do not think of controlling nonverbal behaviours, liars over control nonverbal behaviours so they actually give away the truth. Facial cues for lying are more inaccurate than voice and body cues. Pitch high the pitch also it might be hard to control your pitch too especially when one is highly emotional so there might be some potential. Micro expression: brief involuntary facial expression shown in the face of humans according to emotions experienced.