EXP 3505 Study Guide - Final Guide: Prosocial Behavior, Deindividuation, Group Polarization

• School: FAU
• Department: Experimental Psychology
• Course: EXP 3505
• Professor: Barenholtz Elan

Document Summary

Scientific study of people"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of others. Sociocultural perspective (anthropological) human engineered features of environment (rules, norms, cultures, houses) Evolutionary- adaption/natural selection all organisms adapt to environment for survival (ex: mate selection/retention) Social learning perspective- learning from watching: operant conditioning- rewards and punishment, classical conditioning- learning/pairing of stimuli (ex: beep means front door) Social cognitive perspective- what you receive and interpret in the mind are important (ex: perception, attention, decision making, memory) Descriptive- what actually happened: descriptive methods: naturalistic observation, case studies, archives, surveys/tests. Advantages: ecologically valid, can almost always be used. Disadvantages: causality can be difficult to prove (third variable problem), lack of environment, can take a long time for event to occur. Explanatory- why did it happen: experimental methods: manipulating ivs, measuring dvs, lab vs field experiment. Advantages: designed to demonstrate causality, control of environment, can set up situations that rarely occur.