PSYCH 13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Cognitive Dissonance, Leon Festinger
7 Apr 2017
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Results of some experiments will seem obvious because sp deals with topics that are familiar - social influence and behavior. Results may seem predictable - in retrospect. Hindsight bias: after knowing that something occurred, people think they could"ve predicted the results before it occurred (ex): a candidate wins and we ask why they won. After thinking about it for a while, the outcome seems predictable, even if we didn"t know who"d win before the election. Research begins with a hypothesis the researcher wants to test. Often times hypotheses are generated from previous theories/research. Some scientists aren"t satisfied with existing theories/research. So they try to do their own testing (ex) leon festinger formulating his new approach, cognitive dissonance theory, because he wasn"t satisfied with behaviorism (to explain why people change their attitudes) Theory developed, hypotheses derived from the theory are tested; based on the results, theories are revised and new hypotheses are made.
