[PSYC 215] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (113 pages long)

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Chapter one: an invitation to social psychology social psychology the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations. Arendt"s theory any person is capable of performing acts of brutality. Kurt lewin believed that the behavior of people, like the behavior of objects, is always a function of the field of forces in which they find themselves. Channel factors help explain why certain circumstances that appear unimportant on the surface can have great consequences for behavior (facilitating or blocking it) The channel factor concept is central to a new field at the intersection of social psychology known as behavioral economics. What we see is not necessarily what is actually there but what is plausible what makes a good, predictable. Figure in light of stored representations we have of the world and what makes sense in light of the context in which we encounter something.

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