PSY 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Influence, Observer-Expectancy Effect, Fallacy
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Chapter one: the science of the social side. Influences of social processes of the way people: think (thoughts) Personality: focus on private, internal functioning & differences between people. Social: focus on how most people would react in a given situation, generally. Social cognition: how are we thinking: attributes, attitudes & behavior. Social interactions: positive & negative aspects of relating to others. Skeptical: not everything we read is true: objective: remain as free from bias as possible, humble: realize we are vulnerable to errors, open-minded: commitment to change one"s views to favor evidence, accurate: precise & careful data. Pezzo & beckstead (2008: college students predicted likelihood of negative effect, 2 months later; recalled likelihood estimates were higher. Confirmation bias: tendency to search for information that confirms beliefs. Ignore other information: to be scientific you must try to find dis-confirming evidence. People accept only the evidence that conforms to their belief, rejecting or ignoring any evidence that does not.
