Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mindset, Asteroid Family, Lie Detection

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Maxwell- Smith

Document Summary

Interpersonal communication: an interactional process in which one person sends a message to another. Essesntial for many important aspects of life. Poor communication = major cause of break ups in relationships. Take-home messages (thms): send message over various channels. We tend to focus on content of message. In active conversations, receivers process channels simultaneously. Noise can be a distractor refers to any environmental, physical, psychological factor that interfere w accurately expressing or understanding a message. Context matters - do you have history with the sender. When you know someone you can tease someone in a way that they don"t take personally and that actually strengthens the friendship. Nonverbal communication: transmission of meaning from one person to another through means or symbols other than words. Universal facial emotions: fear, disgust, happiness, anger, sadness, surprise. No matter culture - able to encode whether someone is feeling one of these 6. Body language: kinesics = study of communication through body movements.