PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Knowledge Representation And Reasoning, Selective Perception, Base Rate
12 Dec 2012
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Gordon allport = social psychologist originally personality psychologist. Social psych uses scientific methods to explain how thoughts, feelings and behaviours are influenced by the presence of others (human beings said allport) Behaviour: observable things-(speech) verbal and nonverbal action (what anyone knows about u comes from your behaviours) Cognition (about the social world: how people think of others and apply to others they meet, thought, sensation, perception, memory of people"s personality traits which shape what you experiences. Behaviours are influenced by the presence of others (not just applicable to humans) Capution monkeys = like cucumbers but love grapes. Animals focused on reward and punishments. Bartering task was performed: monkeys were taught a series of behaviours. Give the monkey a token, when monkey gives it back it gets food. 1) when one monkey gets more than the other or a grape instead of a cucumber, the other monkey refuses to play (inequity test).
