PSYCH253 Study Guide - Final Guide: Confirmation Bias, Social Cognition, Attribute Substitution
4 Jan 2016
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It is the scientific study of the way in which people"s thoughts, feelings, desires, and behaviours are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people in social contexts. Stereotyping: why you would even show evidence of stereotyping on an. Implicit associations test. (test that detects the strength of a person"s automatic association between mental representations of objects in memory) Groups: why do people often perform worse in groups than they would have alone? (social inhibition: the tendency to perform tasks more poorly or slower in the presence of others) Motivation: to belong, understand, control, enhance, and trust. People are more competitive vs cooperative in the community. People are equally as competitive and cooperative in the wall street. This experiment brings attention to real life examples like this e. g torturing terrorists in the middle east. Psychological experience is subjective because it allows us to interpret, make meaning, and construct our own reality.
