PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ingroups And Outgroups, Egocentrism, Amygdala

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Meredith Chivers

Document Summary

Common ground: a set of knowledge that the speaker and listener share and they think, assume, or otherwise take for granted that they share. Audience design: speakers design their utterances for their audiences by taking into account the audiences" knowledge. More than 90 percent of conversations happen in a group of four individuals or less. People in conversation tend to exhibit similar accents and rates of speech, and they are often associated with people"s social identity. Situation models: a mental representation of an event, object, or situation constructed at the time of comprehending a linguistic description. Priming: the activation of certain thoughts or feelings that make them easier to think of and act upon. Some have argued that gossip activities to think and communicate about our social world is one of the most critical uses to which language has been put act of socializing. Ingroup: group to which a person belongs: outgroup: group to which a person does not belong.