PSY 0105- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 36 pages long!)
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Important research: speed dating study, chicago bus study, three groups: solitude, control and connection, solitude: less happy, control: average, connection: happier by the end of the ride, culture of honor studies. Chapter 2: the self in a social world ********************************************: spotlight effect-the belief that others are paying more attention to our appearance and behavior than they really are. Implicit egotism- influences major life decisions such as where you live, what you do and who you marry (ex: people named dennis are dentists and people with an m name date. Is it good or bad? (hint: it"s not that simple) If instances of something comes readily to mind, we presume it be commonplace: counterfactual thinking (upward vs. downward)-imaging alternative scenarios and outcomes that might have happened, but didn"t. Intuitive judgments- immediately knowing someone without reasoning or analysis (a. Feeling : overconfidence phenomenon- the tendency to be more confident than correct- to overestimate the accuracy of one"s beliefs.
