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What is Social Psychology?
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It's a new science that started in 1900's that looks at how we view and affect one another
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What are Social Psych's Big Ideas?
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We construct our reality, intuitions are powerful but dangerous, influences shape behavior, attitudes and dispositions affect behavior, and behavior is biological.
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Social Influences: Who said "we are social animals"?
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Aristotle
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Social Influences: Culture defines our situations but what do situations do?
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Leads us to act contrary to our attitudes
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Nazi
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Values not only differ across _____ but ____________.
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time; culture
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Social Representation can cause...
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assumptions to go unchallenged.
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Abraham Maslow's view of "self actualization" is what
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a value judgement--> our views aren't always right
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2 Contradictory Criticisms?
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psych is obvious (duh effect= hindsight bias) and that we cant manipulate people
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What are theories?
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less than fact; ideas that EXPLAIN FACTS which imply testable PREDICTIONS-->Hypothesis
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4 Biases we need to know when evaluating surveys
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1) unrepresentative sample= college students 2) question order, response options, framing
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Organ Donating Defaults
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Social Psych Experiments have two requirements:
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control and random assignment
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What does random assignment do?
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eliminates extraneous factors
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Social Psych research varies by _____ and _______.
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location (lab or field) and method ( correlational or experiment)
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r=
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degree of relationship between two factors from -1.0 to +1.0. The closer to 0 the less the relationship.
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What is Social facilitation?
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Norman Triplett: fishing rod experiment that we do better with others
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What is Social Loathing?
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Ringelman: Tug of War experiment= people tend to get lazy when they know others can do the work
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Who is William James?
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father of psych in America; 1890 Principles of Psychology Book= we have a sense of self
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Two 1908 books on social behavior?
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McDougal (nature) vs. Ross (nurture). ITS BOTH
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Egocentrism is...
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a perceptual bias. Rape victims fall under this.
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Egotism is
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motivated bias. what benefits us
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What is Cognitive Conservatism?
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way we think that protect our beliefs
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belief perseverance is
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believing even after it has been discredited
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confirmation bias is
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finding evidence to support our beliefs
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overconfidence bias is
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overestimating accuracy of our beliefs
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false consensus is
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most people think like u do
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oversight bias is
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overlook evidence that proves u wrong. Ex. all female drivers suck but u just saw a good one
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disconfirmation bias
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finding info that discredits us but we fight it
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what is limited insight?
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we don't have full insight. Freud says we have none.
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what is dual processing?
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automatic and controlled processing of info
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how do we acquire info?
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authority, tenacity, intuitions, rationalism & empiricism
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