PSYC1001 Study Guide - Final Guide: Fundamental Attribution Error, Implicit Stereotype, Mind Control
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Social isolation leads to psychological and health problems: human interaction is intrinsic: reliance on people for emotional connection, vokart et al (1983) prisoners in solitary confinement and brainwashing, kiecolt glaser et al (1992) adverse impact on health and well being that is comparable to damaging health factors such as obesity, smoking and high blood pressure, schacter (1959, isolated 5 volunteers in a windowless room for as long as they could endure, found: considerable differences in the amount of time people could tolerate isolation. Social behaviour is: goal oriented, continual interaction between person and situation, person: features or characteristics a person brings into social situations, situation: environmental events or circumstances outside the person, persons and situations influence each other in a number of ways, different people respond differently to the same situation, situations choose the person, people choose their situation, different situations bring out different parts of the person, people change the situation, situations change the person.
