Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Unconscious Mind, Psych, Scientific Method

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Graeme Haynes

Document Summary

The research tells us that many social phenomena are not quite as. Is social psych just common sense? obvious as they may appear. False expressing one"s pent-up anger is an effective means of reducing one"s risk for aggression. Research on destroying stuff for therapy, it makes people more aggressive. We tend to like things that we"ve been exposed to more frequently, even without knowing that we"ve seen them several times, the one exception to this is when your initial reaction is extremely negative. False people"s attitudes are always highly predictive of their behaviour. Example: kid who hates veggies, negative attitude towards veggies but will eat it for dessert, be nice to boss even though we hate them. False the best way to get something off your mind is to actively try to siress your thoughts. Example: experiment researcher don"t think of a white bear, and then they all did, thoughts suppression fails because of our unconscious mind.