PSYC 208 Lecture Notes - Egocentric Bias, Working Memory, Long-Term Memory
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The study of individual behavior in a social context. Study of the brain and its functions. No right and wrong, totally based on perspective: not true! Sometimes one can observe a psychological phenomenon in real life situations. The study of how people interact with their environments. Includes real and imagined others, contexts and culture. Scientific study of how people think about influence and relate to each other. A study that shows this is the ross and sicoly. They went out and asked married couples about the food preparations at home. Also groceries , causing arguments, demonstrating affection, laundry . Egocentric bias: easy to call to mind stuff i"ve done. Random assignment to conditions (control and experimental group) of the independent variable to see effects on the dependent variable. Things to be concerned about: correlation isn"t equal to causation, directionality. Is it positive of negative correlation (+1. 00 to -1. 00) Questionnaire designs : open ended, closed ended.
