PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Wendy Craig, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Research On The Effects Of Violence In Mass Media
28 Sep 2012
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Larviere proposed that violence on television plas a role in brutal , deadly assaults of innocent people. Hindsight bias: the tendency for people to exaggerate how much they could have predicted the outcome after knowing that it had occurred. When we study human behaviour the results seem predictable. In another condition, particpants were told that the soldiers plan was rejected and the village was destroyed. Formulatig hypotheses and theories theory: an organized set of principles that can be used to explain observed phenomena. Hypothesis: a testable statement or idea about the relationshp between two or more variables. Social psychologists are continuosly engaging in a process of theory refinement, they develop a theory , test specific hypothesis, derived from that theory and based on the resullts revise and formulate new hypotheses. Kitty genovese: genovese was attacked while walking to her care and brtally murdered in an alley of an apartment complex.
