Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Body Language, Facial Expression, Conflict Avoidance

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Communication: process of sending and receiving messages that have meaning. (intrapersonal = talking to yourself) Attention: due to all these factors, including noise , it is important for people to be able to focus attention on the meaning of the. 1) interpersonal must have at least 2 people. 2) process a series of action. 3) interactional mutual participation: components of interpersonal communication person initiating the message person to whom the message is targeted. 6) the context communication: visual attention, attentional capture. Inattentional blindness: failure to notice obvious change in visual scene (change blindness) Rules of interpersonal communication: changes in technology result in changes in norms of communication, cell phone etiquette. Nonverbal communication is the dynamic, mostly face to face, exchange of information through cues other than words (depaulo & friedman, 1998: mulitichanneled, ambiguous, coveys emotion, may contradict verbal messages, culture-bound. We will discuss examples of nonverbal communication: personal space, expressiveness, nonverbal reciprocity.