PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hindsight Bias, Labin, External Validity

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Julie Caouette

Document Summary

Social situations can influence behaviour, the role of construal, or the interpretive processes people use to understand situations. Friends, partners, strangers can cause us to be meaner, kinder, smarter. Can produce drastic chances in our beliefs & behaviour. We learn things and are subject to motivational pressures and it shapes our behaviors and emotions (reward) different because we have a highly evolved pre-frontal cortex. We can manipulate ideas, thinking process is very highly evolved ex: math. : scientific study of feelings, thoughts & behaviours of individuals in social situations. Extrovert but in front as a huge class, wants to get our attention, but is really introvert kinda person. Situations can often determine behavior despite individual differences. Arendt in 1963 suggest that we are all capable of cruelty. During the experiment, the confederate begins to scream in pain and to demand that the experiment end. Despite potential harm to another person, 62. 5 percent of participants completed the experiment.