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Gilovich, Keltner, Chen and Nisbett's definition of Social psychology
- Scientific study of
- - Feelings
- - Thoughts
- - Behaviours
- In social situations
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Allport's definition of social psychology
Discipline understanding how thoughts, feelings and behaviours of people are influenced by others
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Kassin, Fein and Markus's definition of Social Psychology
Scientific study of how individuals think, feel and behave in social contexts
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Characteristics of social psychology
- Individual in the social context
- Examines internal psychological states as well as behaviour
- Uses scientific method
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Focuses of social psychology
- Situation/context
- Cognition - Thoughts and perceptions
- Person - Stable traits and interactions
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Fundamental attribution error
- Failure to recognize or underestimation of the impact of situational influences on behaviour.
- Tendency to overestimate impact of dispositions on behaviour
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Dispositions
Internal factors such as beliefs, values, personality traits and abilities
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Fundamental attribution error with regard to other people
Belief that behaviour is the result of internal factors
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Fundamental attribution error with regard to ourselves
Belief that our behaviour is due to external factors
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Power of the situation
Situations often determine our behaviour, regardless of our attributes
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Aim of the stanford prison experiment
Determine whether poor prison conditions were the result of dispositions of the environment
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Competing hypotheses of the Stanford prison experiment
- Dispositional - Nature of people leads to poor prison conditions
- Situational - Prison environment leads to poor conditions
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Which kind of participants were selected for the Stanford prison experiment?
- Physically and mentally stable
- Mature
- Little or no involvement in antisocial behaviour
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What are the two processing systems
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Controlled processing
- Slow, conscious, systematic, deliberate
- Explicit attitudes and beliefs
- Can override automatic processes
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Are conscious processes serial or parallels?
- Serial (one at a time)
- They are slow as well
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Are unconscious processes serial or parallel
- Parallel
- They are fast too
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Are we aware of all of our processing?
No, unconscious processing can influence us without our awareness
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Outline the Capilano bridge experiment
- - Two bridges - A wide and sturdy one, and a wobbly and exhilarating one
- - An attractive woman interviewed makes approaching the bridges and asked told them to contact her for more info if they wanted
- - More people that crossed the 'dangerous' bridge contacted her
- - Non-consciously misattributed their feelings toward her
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