PSY220H5 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Yield Sign, Confirmation Bias, Vending Machine
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Persuasion- the process of it and in all different levels: especially the use of it in advertisement (brain washing) thus buying. Conformity- everyone conforms- stems from primal fear of being rejected or things we don"t like shunned if you don"t fit in. Attraction in animals and humans, very surprising: especially due to evolutionary history. Altruism- read it on your own, rather will be lecture on gender and genetics. *make sure to do readings before each lecture! Positive, negative: a manipulation is often impossible and or unethical, this means often cant see causations. Freud: psychoanalysis- a lot of psych is based on him abut as we now know a lot of stuff he said was inaccurate as it was not backed up by psych/scientific studies. Social psyc= addition of social thinking, influences of society, and also the interpersonal relationships. Thinking includes a lot of psych principles: e. g. self fulfilling prophecy- we do things people expect of us.
