PSYCH253 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Implicit-Association Test, Hindsight Bias, Self-Awareness
16 Sep 2016
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Social psychology: scientific study of how people think about, influence and relate to one another. Focus on individual with methods more often focused on experimentation. Focuses less on differences among individuals, more on how individuals view and affect one another. Studies our thinking, influence and relationships by asking intriguing questions as follows: Social behavior varies not just with ob jective situations but also how we construe the reality - ex. Of happily married (mad husband = bad day) vs. unhappily married couple (mad husband = hostile person) Complying to high officials (nazi germany) - Exp. by stanley milgram (1974) administering shock to people in a different room. Shocking result; 2/3 of participants fully complied. mil scattered the streets of toronto, returned by some people, rest was pocketed by others. All questions deal with how people view and effect on another. Psychologists study; attitudes and beliefs, conformity and independence, love and hate.
