PSY BEH 11C Chapter Notes - Chapter 11-13: Telling Stories, Body Language, Group Polarization
29 Mar 2018
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Page 495: social psychology, the study of how people influence other people"s thoughts, feelings, and actions, social brain hypothesis, primates have large brains according to this theory, because they live in dynamic and complex social groups that. Hard to stand in the opposite direction of people in an elevator: ex. Driving on opposite side of road: study. Good samaritan experiment with time and speeches and stuff: 4 major reasons for bystander effect, diffusion of responsibility, people expect other people to help reported it when alone, less people reported it when confederates shrugged it off, ex. Looks better to you: attitude accessibility but weird to other people, refers to the ease or difficulty that a person has in retrieving an attitude from memory, accessibility predicts behavior consistent with the attitude, explicit vs. Implicit: explicit attitudes, attitudes that a person can report.
