PSYCH 13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Role Theory, How We Think, Dispositional Attribution
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4 social perception: how we come to understand other people: social perception. A. the study of how we form impressions of and make inferences about other people: how we come to understand other people. A. three major theories that describe how we think about why people engage in particular types of behavior: attribution theory, correspondent inference theory, covariation theory. 1. the way in which people communicate intentionally or unintentionally, without words: nonverbal cues include: 2. facial expressions tone of voice: gestures, body position/movement. 5. the use of touch: gaze, mirror neurons. 1. these neurons respond when we perform an action and when we see someone else perform the same action: appear to be the basis of our ability to feel empathy, facial expressions of emotion. !2: six major emotional expressions, anger, happiness, surprise. A. in general, women are better at encoding and decoding nonverbal cues: one exception is that women are less accurate at detecting deception.
