PSYCO241- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 13 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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Social psychology: feelings, thoughts, behaviours of individuals in social structures (scientific study) Lewin"s field theory: b=f (p x s) the person does matter, but the situations also matter. Your behaviour is the function of the personality and the situation. Your personality can also override the situation in some cases, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. Social psychologists have to be really clever about getting into questions and finding ways of posing questions. Interdependence and independence: moderation and mediation **know the difference. Important issues in research: need to deceive- no awareness, ex: milgram experiment, high impact vs low impact- how far will people go, generalizability- research as weird (western, educated, industrialized, rich and. Ex: rouge test (view mirror, place mark, look. Children: 18 months and younger=no sense of self. Chimpanzee: sense of self is there, they even use mirror to groom themselves.
