PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Prefrontal Cortex, Social Perception
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Behaviour: verbal, nonverbal: emblems(gestures that have well-understood meaning within a culture, nonverbal language) culturally different, thin slices (power of behavioural input) brief exposure needed to understand each other. How quickly can you detect someone"s socioeconomic status. Context- matters, it provides additional input and can completely change attribution. Example: crying is usually bad but if there is a trophy beside the subject it could mean tears of joy. *context is directly dependant on how much attention it receive, we may not be paying attention to the context very much** Schemas- what we perceive from the social world (what you expect is what you get?) Attribution: explanation for an observed behaviour of another social object (explaining why something is the way it is) Attribution is very automatic: refer to the animation with odd shapes that are considered to be social beings (prefrontal cortex is responsible for this: pattern matches; this is what attribution is)
