PSYC 260 Chapter 4: Chapter 4
15 Dec 2015
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Social perception: the study of how we form impressions of other people and make inferences. Nonverbal behaviour: the way in which peopel communicate intentionally or unintentionally about them. Encode: express or emit nonverbal behaviour such as smiling or patting someone on the back. Decode: to interpret the meaning of the nonverbal behaviour other ppl express such as deciding that a pat on the back was an expressios of condescesion and not kindness. Affect blend: facial expression in whichone part of the face registrs one emotion while another part of the face refisters a different emotion. Display rules: culturally determined rules about which emotional expressions are appropriate. Emblems: nonverbal gestures that have well understood definitions within given culture they ussually have direct vebal translations sich as the okay sign. to show. Implicit personal theory: a type of shcema ppl use to group various kids of personality traits together.
