PSYCH 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Milgram Experiment, Takers, Snack
5 Apr 2016
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Social psychology: the scientific study of how an individual"s thoughts, feelings & behaviors are influenced by other people: cognitive processes, cultural context, environmental factors & implicit (non-conscious) processes are involved in understanding our social world. Hindsight bias: the belief that you knew it all along : halo effect: we assume attractive people have better qualities, false consensus effect: we assume others share our values before actually meeting them. Help us to fill in details & make inferences (ambiguous picture with different priming stimuli) Ex: shown words to do with sleep & remembering the word sleep even though it wasn"t shown. What determines which schema will be used in a situation: situational cues, priming, perceptual salience, personal chronic constructs. Cognitive biases (such as schemas) can lead to misjudgments such as overgeneralizing, misinterpreting, perseverance effect (belief persistence) holding onto false beliefs. Ross, lepper & hubbard: i. v: false feedback on suicide-note detection task; d. v: estimated and predicted actual performance.
