PSYC 1030H Final: PSYC1030-Exam Review
17 Apr 2017
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Social psychology: person perception, attribution processes, attitudes, conformity and obedience, behaviour in groups. Informal decision making: the more common (everyday) process, relies on, hunches. Figure&ground: past experiences, simple guidelines for making reasonably good decisions quickly. Bias" can prevent us from even considering information that calls our conclusions into question. Present views maintained present views processed, remembered and strengthened: evidence not consistent with present views. Conditions that make escalation of commitment less likely: You have no other choice, you must go on : eventually, shouting stops and learner" is silent. Health psychology/behavioural medicine: an interdisciplinary field, health and wellness are caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological and sociocultural factors. Is the situation benign/neutral, threatening, harmful, challenging: example: two students failing a course. Jodi views final exam as a threat, procrastinates on studying because of feeling bad. Jodi may have helpful resources, but views exam as threatening and doesn"t use them. Jane evaluates available resources and uses them.
