PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Alan Alda, John Lydon, Business School

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: John Lydon

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If the name of the experimenter is listed, it"s just for memory cues. The midterm is during class time (thursday before break). Automaticity: think about how automatic thoughts, feelings and behaviors are not just in response to anything, but often because we are motivated. Experiments are done where you"re sitting with another person and the person does movements periodically, and this increases the likelihood that we will respond to it. The suggestion is that by doing that, it facilitates a social connection. When we mimic someone, it creates for a smoother interaction. As social beings, it is a good thing when we are interacting with people to do things that facilitate a sense of closeness. We are not thinking consciously, lydon did this, i"ll do this . Focus on social skills, with strangers, people haven"t met before. Tanya at duke university has been studying this topic.