PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Random Assignment, Floyd Henry Allport, Kurt Lewin
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Behavior is influenced by other people (even imagined presence of people/ rules etc) Objective truth is often not as important as a person"s private perspective. How others act/see us affects what we do and how we see ourselves. Hindsight bias people think i knew it all along ; thinking events as more predictable than before the event occurred. Contradictory proverbs: i. e birds of a feather flock together vs. opposites attract. Basis of research: our intuition on how people act and the extent of which it is true. Triplett watched cyclists: they performed better when racing against another person vs. just time trial: brought children in lab to wind fishing reel as fast as they can. Found the ones racing against another child were faster than ones racing against a clock: having other people around sometimes improves performance. Floyd allport: the cheerleader for experimental soc. Psych: wrote one of the first textbooks about social psych.
