PSY 124 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Verbal Behavior, Social Perception, Physiognomy
17 Oct 2018
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Social perception: a general term for the process by which people come to understand one another. People attend to physiognomy (the art of reading character from faces) Knowledge of social settings provides an important context for understanding other people"s verbal and non- verbal behaviour. We derive meaning from our observations by dividing the continuous stream of human behaviour into discrete units. Mind perception: the process by which people attribute humanlike mental states to various animate and inanimate objects, including other people. Non-verbal behaviour: behaviour that reveals a person"s feelings without words, through facial expressions, body language, and vocal cues: provides important cues for our social perceptions. Surprise: disgust, when recognizing emotion, familiarity breeds accuracy. Chinese-americans are more likely to recognize expressions on americans than chinese. Charles darwin believed that recognizing facial expressions has a survival value: some emotions are more important to identify than others.
