PSYC 215 Lecture 3: Social Knowledge
18 Sep 2015
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Psyc 215 lecture #3 social knowledge. The way he walked off; very focused to get out the door; not concerned with the situation. She was frowning; assumed professor did something to wrong him. Someone perceived it as embarrassment instead of anger resulting in him not helping the professor with his dropped papers. Once you"ve had a hypothesis, what information did you use as inferences: posture, facial expressions, age, ethnicity. William james suggested infants are born into a state of confusion. Nevertheless they are constantly making sense/trying to make sense of something. A picture of blurs (blooming confusion) but we can infer images out of it such as a dog. Class split into group one and two. Group one was given letters on the screen, and group two shown numbers. Both groups were shown a symbol afterwards. Results: group one saw the letter b and group two saw the number 13 .
