PSYC 1030H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Deindividuation, Railways Act 1921, Collective Behavior
7 Mar 2018
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Social psychology: person perception, attribution processes, attitudes, conformity and obedience, behaviour in groups. Reasoning: cognitive activity that transforms information in order to reach specific conclusions. Decision making: process of choosing among various courses of action or alternatives. Rational decision making: making decisions in a cool, mathematical way. Rational considerations: utility or value to you of each alternative, probability of results occurring. Informal decision making: the more common (everyday) process, relies on: hunches, intuition, information from memories, opinions from others. Role of mood states: current moods (especially strong moods) can dramatically reduce our ability to reason effectively. Role of beliefs: reasoning is often influenced by beliefs associated with strong emotions (or moods) What happens when strong beliefs come face to face with logical arguments: logical arguments are often discounted. Gestalt psychology gestalt principles of visual perception: we automatically impose visual organization on stimuli.
