Non-Verbal Behavior
To express non-verbal behavior
What is Encode?
A set of six basic motions or positions of the muscles beneath the skin of the face
What are Facial Expressions?
Anger, Sadness, Joy, Fear, Disgust, Surprise
What are 6 basic facial expressions?
What is Attribution Theory?
A type of schema people use to group various kinds of personality traits together
What is Implicit Personality Theory?
To interpret the meaning of the non-verbal behavior
What is Decode?
The way one person speaks to another person
What is Tone of Voice?
The study of how we form impressions of and make inferences about other people
What is Social Perception?
The inference that a person is behaving in a way because of something about the person, such as attitude, character, or personality
What is an Internal Attribution?
Over-exaggeration of the link between a single trait and someone's personality
What is the Halo Effect?
Facial expressions in which one part of the face registers one emotion while another part of the face registers a different emotion.
What are Affect Blends?
A movement of the body to express an idea or meaning
What is a Gesture?
A key figure in the study of social perception who studied facial expressions as non-verbal communication
Who is Charles Darwin?
The inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about the situation they are in
What is an External Attribution?
Aspects of a person that create a strong impression
What are Central Traits?
Culturally determined rules about which nonverbal behaviors are appropriate to display.
What are Display Rules?
The posture a person conveys in non-verbal communication
What is Body Position/Movement?
The way in which people communicate, intentionally or unintentionally, without words
What is Non-Verbal Communication?
The tendency to overestimate the extent to which people's behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of situational factors
What is Fundamental Attribution Error?
Aspects of a person that do not create a major impression
What are Peripheral Traits?
Nonverbal gestures that have well understood definition within a given culture; usually have direct verbal translations.
What are Emblems?
Conveying interest by way of eye contact
What is a Gaze?
A theory that states: to form an attribution about what caused a person's behavior, we systematically note the pattern between the presence or absence of possible causal factors & whether or not the behaviors occur
What is the Covariation Model?
Fritz Heider
Who is the Father of Attribution Theory?
Making assumptions about non-observable traits based on observable traits
What is Stereotyping?