Introduction to social psychology
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- Introduction to social psychology
- Definition
- The scientific study of the way individuals think, feel and behave in social situations
- Sociology as a science
- Experiment
- A hypothesis test in which something is done in order to see its effect on something else
- Looking for relationship between cause and effect
- Correlation is not causation
- Looking for relationship between cause and effect
- A hypothesis test in which something is done in order to see its effect on something else
- Social cognition
- The study of the cognitive processes and structures that influence and are influenced by social behaviour
- The computer is a metaphor for the human mind
- Cognition gives social order
- Strive for consistency
- Inconsistency can occur when a person is persuaded to behave in a way that is different to their attitude
- Cognitive balance - congruency between expectancy and outcome
- People find causes to behaviour and events in order to render the world a meaningful place
- Strive for consistency
- People are intuitive psychologist - Fritz Heider
- Our own behaviour is motivated rather than random
- We attribute causes for behaviour
- Errors and biasies can occur due to limited information
- Untitled
- False consensus effect
- People see their own behaviour as typical and assume others would behave the same
- People are cognitive misers - Nisbett and Ross
- Limited in their capacity to process information
- Take cognitive shortcuts / heuristics
- Misconceptions of chance
- Gambler's fallacy
- We have no control over the events that are going to happen
- Gambler's fallacy
- Social thinker as a motivated tactician
- Choose strategy based on their personal goals, motives and needs
- More personally important = more likely to be successful = claim responsibility but deny responsibility to failure
- Choose strategy based on their personal goals, motives and needs
- Power of the situation
- Agentic mode of thinking
- People transfer personal responsibility to the person giving orders
- Agentic mode of thinking
- Automatic thinking
- Implicit
- Schemas
- Mental templates
- Guides our perceptions and interpretations of our experience
- Mental templates
- Emotional reactions
- Instant
- Happens before there is time for deliberate thinking
- One neural shortcut takes information from ear to thalamus to amygfala before the cortex intervenes
- Confirmation bias
- People tend not to seek information that might disprove what they believe
- We are eager to verify our beliefs but less inclined to seek evidence that might disprove them
- Definition
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