PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Paralanguage, Eye Contact, Deductive Reasoning
19 Nov 2012
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Four stages of competence: unconscious incompetence. Don"t even realize your behaviour is receive differently, could be offensive: conscious incompetence. Eg, bullfighting: conscious competence, unconscious competence. You don"t need to think about what you"re doing in your culture anymore. Individualist: credible, expert, and winner: collectivistic: older males and famous females are persuasive, and families that are well known. Individualist: linear, conclusion is supported through inductive or deductive reasoning: collectivist: beating around the bush. Tone, how you say it, facial expression, posture. Eye contact you expect people to look at you or they are shifty and not trusted in our culture: watson"s study. High level of eye contact: arabs, latin american, southern european. Touching: you do not touch a child"s head in some cultures, parts of body being touched it culturally determined, comparison of american and japanese. Japanese touch their mothers more than fathers & same with american. Same sex friend, more touching in american.
