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Social Psychologists seek to explain behavior
Why did X happen?
individual/ personality
Situation? |
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| Obiedience (Stanley Milgram) |
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Teacher vs Student
to what extent would participants actually listen to the scientist. Why is it that they decided to obey? |
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| Helpin in seminarians (Darley and Batson) |
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Independent variables
Topic of talk (seminary jobs or good samartian)
Time pressure (running late or not)
Dependent varialbes: Helping |
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-What matters in predicting behavior isnt whats real, but what a person perceives.
- Different people perceive (or construe) the same thing in different ways |
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Construal
Gesalt psychology |
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Monkey business illusion (viisual perception)
A template for understanding experience
A set of knowledge about the world
the way things work
how to behave in particular situations
How to talk to different kinds of people
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Where did these come from?
Evidence ( in some cases)
Thin Slices
Stereotypes
Beliefes about someone based on group membership
Not necessarily incorrect...
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Automaticity and control
Controlled
automatic |
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Controlled- Conscious, deliberate
Automatic- unconscious, unintended
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| A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through consious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling. |
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A mental an physicale state
Often characterized by arousal
related to perceived benefit or threat
has motivating qualities
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Each emotion has a distinct set of facial muscle contractions
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Paul Ekman
six basic emotions |
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suprise
fear
disgust
anger
happiness
sadness
Verified by cross-cultural universals
(new Guinea and U.S.) |
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James- Lange theory
Event, physical reaction, then emotional reaction
James- We feel happy because we jump up and down laughing
Lange- experience of the physical reaction is the emotion |
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Injection of adrenaline (Epinepherine)
Emotion is a combination of
Physiological arousal
cognitive labeling of that arousal |
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So why take a date to scary movies
Dutton and Aron |
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The test with the bridges. Study to see what causes people to get aroused. What causes arousal... sexual vs fear. |
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Semantic
Knowledge (of information, facts, events)
Episodic
Mental Time travel
Re-experiencing past events |
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80 year old basketball player
couldnt remember that his wife was dead
Kept asking about her
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