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| thinking (thought), feeling (affect) and doing (behavior) |
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| do the things that people have allowed, reinforced you to do, what the situation says you should do |
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| social psych's big lessons (6) |
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1) we construct our social reality
2) our social institutions are often powerful but sometimes perilous
3) social influences shape our behavior
4) personal attitudes and dispositions also shape behavior
5) social behavior is biologically rooted
6) social psych's principles are applicable to everyday life and other disciplines |
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| Social Psych and Human Values |
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obvious ways in which values enter
not so obvious ways (subjective aspects of science, psychological concepts contain hidden values) |
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| the tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one's ability to have foreseen it, the "i knew it all along" phenomenon |
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| an integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events |
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| a testable proposition that describes the relationship that may exist between events |
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study naturally occurring relationships among variables
one variable may influence the other
"third variable" problem
allow prediction, do NOT infer causation |
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random samples, representative vs unrepresentative samples (e.g. students, ethnicities, cultures)
order of questions
response questions
wording of questions (welfare vs assistance to poor)
framing (the way a question or an issue is posed) |
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searching for cause and effect
control, manipulating variables
IV - the factor that is manipulated
DV - variables being measured
random assignment - all persons have same chance of being in a given condition |
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| often uses real-world settings |
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| correlational disadvantages |
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| causation often ambiguous |
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| can explore cause and effect by controlling variables and by random assignment |
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| experimental disadvantages |
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| some important variable cannot be studied with experimets |
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| are the results obtained consistent? |
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| does the test measure what it claims to measure? |
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| experimental results cause by expectations alone; any effect on behavior caused by administration of an inert substance or condition, which is assumed to be an active agent |
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| belief that others are paying more attention to one's appearance and behavior than they actually are |
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| illusion that our concealed emotions can be easily read by others |
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