PSYC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Influence, Verbal Behavior, Confirmation Bias

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 203
• Professor: Lenka Zdrazilova

Document Summary

Psyc 203 lecture 6: social thinking and social influence. Snap judgments: automatic, occur outside of conscious awareness, little effort vs. Communication sarcasm is the classic example of verbal- nonverbal contradiction (sarcasm: when verbal and nonverbal cues directly conflict, perceivers rely on nonverbal cues to interpret meaning. Schemas: mental representations of objects or categories of objects. Help us fill in the blanks when are trying to remember things: facilitates our memory for information we encounter, but may cause us to mistakenly recall information that we did not actually encounter. The tendency to search for or interpret new info in ways that confirm your expectations. Biased questions seek to confirm a hypothesis. Diagnostic questions seek to test the accuracy of a hypothesis. Errors in person perception: occur as a consequence of automatic processing. Through schemas and expectation: most likely to occur when we are. Not motivated to seek out additional information.