PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Group Decision-Making, Stationary Point, Classical Conditioning

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Social psychology: concerned with how people influence other people"s thoughts, feelings and actions. Implicit attitudes: influence feeligns and behaviours at unconscious level: assess them from memory quickly, little conscious effort or control, ex: purchase brad pitt deodorant w/o remembering commercial. Implicit association test: reaction time test that can identify implicit attitudes, measures how quickly we associate concepts or objects with positive or negative words ex: female= bad or female=good indicates implicit attitude towards females. What we use to make impressions of others. Attributions: people"s causal explanations for events or actions, including other people"s behaviour: fulfills our basic needs for order and predictability- anticipate future events. Just word hypothesis: assume that victims did something to deserve what happened to them ex: person"s fault for getting raped. Attributional bias error/correspondence bias: tendency to overemphasize personal factors and underestimate situational factors in explaining behaviour. Ingroup: groups that we belong to, more strongly identify with.