SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Santa Barbara City College, How We Think, Social Cognition
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Ethical principles of psychologists in canada in the conduct of research: respect for dignity of persons, informed consent, minimizing harm, freedom to withdraw, privacy and confidentiality, use of deception use if no other choice. The reason for this may be because this other researcher found that when people read fiction like harry potter or twilight, she found that the reader places themselves in these social environments. Ideomotor effects when you think of certain social categories you act in a certain way: independent variable, dependent variable, procedure. Social cognition: how we think about the social world. Social psychology: the scientific study of how people think and feel about, influence, and relate to one another. Cognitive psychology: the scientific study of basic mental abilities such as perception, learning, and memory. Social cognition: social cognition studies how people think about themselves and the social world. How they select, interpret, remember and use social information to make judgments and decisions.
