multiple choice Flashcards
Explain how spatial relationships, architecture, and objects influence learning and interactions
Poor lighting, external construction noises, hot or cold room, odors (literally our nasty muggy class UGH filled with mole rats) ALL influence our learning abilities/cause distraction
Explain the perception of time as an environmental nonverbal cue
-Time allows us to govern when we eat and sleep/how much we get paid at work
-Places key role in social interaction, for example, we associate people on time as responsible, boring people as talking too much etc
-Clocks in car, watch, phone dictate when we need to go to/leave that space
Identify the factors that influence reactions to territory encroachments
Who violated our territory?
Why did they violate our territory?
What type of territory was it?
How was the violation accomplished?
How long did the encroachment last?
Do we expect further violations in the future?
Where did the violation occur?
· Describe the benefits and drawbacks/consequences of being physically attractive in the workplace (i.e interviews, obtaining the job, dress, etc.)
Dressing in showy wear can make you seem like the one who got the job for their looks not because they deserved it.
Sometimes you are not taken seriously
Prettier people get more opportunities
What is symmetry and why is it relevant to physical attractiveness?
there are only a small percent of people who are fully symmetric, the more symmetric you are, the more “attractive” people tend to be
Describe some judgments we make about physical attractiveness from the face, specifically babyish faces
those with a babyface are seen as highly attractive
Explain the waist-to-hip ratio and how it impacts our judgments of physical attractiveness for both genders
On average most desirable is .7 which is the ratio of how wide your waist is
· How does height influence perceptions of attractiveness – such as for power, status, and general attractiveness.
Men that are short are seen as less attractive and have less power
Describe how smell and attractiveness are related – be able to describe some of the research findings on this area.
People that smell good are more attractive
Smell dating and attentiveness.
Smelling the shirts and asking who was the most attractive by the smell of their shirt
Babys and mothers smell, identifying eachother by their smell.
Fermons we are attracted to the scent that we are not he same as because our DNA is too close matched together.
· What role do clothes and other artifacts play on our judgments of physical attractiveness? Be able to identify research study findings and some of the general influences clothes have on our judgments of attractiveness
· Be familiar with the research on touch in human development – infants, children, etc.
· Describe what it means to say that touch can convey both positive and negative affect.
· Describe the meanings associated with touch (i.e. negative affect, positive affect, influence, etc.)
How do environmental or contextual factors influence perceptions of touch, especially gender differences.
Describe the different kinds of self touching and be able to give an example for each.