PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fundamental Attribution Error, Internal Validity, Convergent Validity
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Scientific study of the way in which people"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people. Power of the situation: ross & samuels (1993) wall street game v. community game. Competitive undergrads and cooperative undergrads involved to play a game in which they took turns allocating money between themselves and others depended on personality or what the game was called (independent variables) Interested in whether how students play the game. Whether the participant was competitive or cooperative didn"t matter (personality was not a factor in the amount of cooperation) situation in the same way- cultural norms. Strong social norms led participants to construe the: prisoner"s dilemma. Importance of cognition and construal: construal- the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world (eg. what comes to mind when you hear. Situation influences our interpretations: cognition- social cognition (why things happen to us?- attributions, our social world)
