PSY 105 Chapter Notes - Fall 2018 Chapter 13 - Representativeness heuristic, Midbrain, Elaboration likelihood model
20 Sep 2018
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Social psychology: the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to other people: not the same as sociology, connection to real-life events, reliance on experimental methods. Connected to real life: emerged in the years after the civil war, connects to real-life subjects like racism, prejudice, etc. (cid:862)social psychology places many topics i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludi(cid:374)g (cid:374)euros(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e, per(cid:272)eption, cognition, learning, motivation, and emotion into a social context(cid:863) Social psychological research is (often) experimental: manipulating an independent variable. Social cognition (cid:862)the area of so(cid:272)ial ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455) that e(cid:454)plores ho(cid:449) people select, interpret, remember, and use social information(cid:863) Person perception: how we use our experiences to form impressions of other people, todorov experiment: showing people faces of candidates for house and senate elections, ratings a(cid:272)(cid:272)uratel(cid:455) predi(cid:272)ted 70% of the ele(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s how trustworthy they were. Physical attractiveness: attractive people usually have more positive connotations along with their features.
