PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Illusory Correlation, Social Cognition, Quasi
20 Oct 2014
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Chapters 1 & 2 history, methods, and theory. Man is by nature a social animal (aristotle, politics, c. 328. Changes in focus (instinct, attitude, consistency, attributions, social cognition, automatic processing, Changes in issues (prejudice, aggression, riots, crime, multiculturalism, morality, religion) Changes in participants (gender, m to f, general to college students) Changes in analysis (univariate analyze one/a few variables at a time, multivariate) Social cognition: how individuals make sense of themselves and other individuals. Research is the method of asking and answering a question with a set of systematic procedures which assist/protect researchers in avoiding biases. Self-serving bias: the tendency to view ourselves favorably see self in positive light. Actor/observer bias: when judgments are affected by the perspective of the judge. Hedonic bias: a desire to maximize good things and minimize bad things. These biases can influence us as individuals and therefore they can influence us as scientists.
