introduction
the way in which people's thoughts, behaviors, and emotions are influenced by the presence of other people.
what is social psychology?
correlation does NOT equal causation
as one variable increases, the other decreases
what is a negative (-) correlation?
nonconscious, unintentional, involuntary, and effortless thinking
what is automatic thinking?
Teachers get files indicating some students are “bloomers”
who are rosenthal and jacobson (1968)?
need to feel good about self and need to be accurate
what forms our construal?
psychology is a scientific endeavor (5 steps)
1) generate theories, 2) devise hypothesis, 3) analyze data, 4) publish/present, 5) repeat
assesses how well you can predict one variable from another.
organize info, directs attention, influences memory/processing
what is the function(s) of schemas?
The Community Game or the Wall Street Game
who are liberman, samuels, and ross (2004)?
way in which people interpret, comprehend, and perceive the social world.
what is construal?
trade-off between internal and external validity in an experiment
what is basic dilemma of a social psychologist?
number that tells researchers how likely it is results occurred by chance and not due to IV.
what is p-value?
mental shortcut whereby people classify something according to how similar it is to a typical case.
what is a representativeness heuristic?
Brought people into laboratory and got them to look at certain things (clinical synopsis from therapists office)
who are fischoff and bar-hillel (1984)?
b = f(p,e)
behavior is a function of people and their environment
1 scientist, 1 non scientist, and 1 member not affiliated with the institution
who is the institutional review board made up of?
averages results of 2+ studies to see if effect of an independent variable is reliable.
what is meta-analysis?
a judgment strategy where one adjusts their answer based on a starting value/exemplar (anchor).
what is anchoring/adjustment?
Essentially, no one really knows about this sample person; yet a seemingly unrelated task completely influenced how people viewed him.
who are higgens, rhole, and jones (1977)?
stresses importance of studying subjective way in which object appears in minds rather than its objective, physical attributes.
what is gestalt psychology?
research conducted with members of different cultures to see whether the psychological process of interest is present in both cultures or if they are specific to culture where people were raised.
what is cross-cultural research?
everyone in population given chance of being selected for the sample vs. all participants given equal chance of taking part in any condition of experiment
random selection vs random assignment to condition
neurological disorder that causes people to lose ability to form new memories and must approach every situation as if 1st time.
Pro-Arab and Pro-Israeli groups on campus express opinions of news segment covering the Beruit Massacre
what was the hostile media phenomenon (1985)?