Psychology 2070A/B Midterm: Psychology 2070A/B Midterm chap 1 3 4 6 7.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: James M Olson

Document Summary

2070 midterm chap 1 3 4 6 7. Social psychology- scientific study of how individuals thoughts, feelings, and behavior s are influenced by other people: influenced by other people. How other people affect us: thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Include cognitions, feelings and behaviors: individuals perspective (social construal- how they construe/perceive/interpret the situation, scientific study. Study showed that when a poster board of attractive models was presented, people rated themselves less attractive and less competent. Deinviduation has been used to explain the feeling that people feel unaccountable for their actions when in a large group. The larger the mob, the bigger the breakdown of normal inhibitory self- control and the more the savage the mob attacks. Why intuitions are wrong: common sense often allows competing predictions, intuitions are not always right (valid, folk wisdom is often vague and simplistic. Hindsight bias- the tendency to think that a known outcome was obvious. Bottom line is that social psychology is relevant.