PSY BEH 104S Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Reading Notes
23 Oct 2017
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Characterizing social psychology: social psychology: the scientific study of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations, social psychologists test intuitions by devising studies and crafting experiments that successfully isolate the causes of behavior in social situations. Explaining behavior: philip zimbardo: standard university experiment. Seminarians as samaritans: power of the situation and helping john darley and daniel batson (1973, experiment shows the importance of the situation, seminary students were printed to think about helping by being asked to deliver a speech. Some were told they were in a rush while others were told they have plenty of time. The most powerful determinant of usage yet is the distance to the closet facility. Situations are often more powerful in influence on behavior than we realize. We often overlook such situational factors when we try to understand our own behavior or that of other, and we often mistake3nly attribute behavior to presume traits or disposition (the fundamental attribution error)
