COMST 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intentionality, Expectancy Violations Theory, Cortisol

• School: Iowa State University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMST 325
• Professor: Sweet Dawn

Document Summary

Cognition, emotions, behavior are connected e. g. fear. Pupil dilation, hyper-vigilant, heart rate and respiration increases; perspiration increases; cortisol increases. Awareness: conscious recognition of cognitive process or stimulus. Intentionality: automatic: does not assume awareness, intention, control. We gaze longer at attractive or curious things: goal-directed automaticity: middle point; uncontrollable processes that become controllable over time, either case, we can control once we become conscious. Nonverbal communication evolution and biology: facial displays. Facial feedback hypothesis: looking happy will make you feel happy. Display rules: tell us how to respond in situations we have to respond to. Touch: first sense to develop and more important for survival. Voice and scent lowers stress, promotes emotional security: voice. Physical appearance: overall health - physical and mental, symmetry, waist to hip ratio (. 70) Major assumption: interpersonal behavior is learned (different from biological paradigm: innate versus learned) Communication behavior is learned through: observation, direct instruction, both. Social learning theory: behavioral learning occurs most effectively by watching.