1st Day Flashcards
understanding the concept of social psychology
Small reward = more value/enjoyment
An experience will gain you more value if you receive a smaller reward long term.
EX: someone always is praised for their Intelligence vs someone being told they need to work harder. encouragement creates a hard worker that values the experience of their growth instead of boosting an ego through praise.
Individualism doesn’t make it easy to violate social norms
In order to violate social norms you need to come up with an original thought, but with the constant sifts in society it becomes difficult to be the only one to have thought of an idea/come up with that concept.
EX: someone wants to be a furry, but there are many furries now.
Self esteem and intelligence doesn’t matter, but the specific knowledge of the issue does
In order to lower someone’s self esteem there needs to be proof or some information that can provide evidence against someone’s beliefs. Without proof someone doesn’t feel affected by other’s words.
EX: if someone is called ugly they may take initial offense but brush it off. On the other hand if someone points out insecurities and judges their personality there will be a more significant impact to their emotions.
A person’s level of aggression is relatively stable throughout life but the type of aggression may change
As a child your temper developed and growing up it only adapts to your maturity.
(dramatic) EX: someone may cry a lot as a baby and refuse to breath when throwing tantrums, as the become children they will scream and go limp during disagreements, as teens they learn to vocalize their needs but now choose to run away, but finally as a adults they quickly loose their temper by victimizing themselves and avoiding situations.
Being in a bad mood can increase people’s tendency to help by being motivated by the desire to get rid of oneself of the bad mood
Good moods push people to pay it forward, but being in a bad mood pushes people to be less mean because they would’ve someone to be kind to them as well. Guilt is a bad mood that leads to being most helpful.
EX: someone decides to steal $10 from their teacher’s purse and she tells everyone to please return it because that’s her bus money for the week, that might make them feel guilty and return $15 instead.
Opposites don’t last across lots of domains, similarities leads to attraction
It’s been said opposites are more attracted to each other but its been proven otherwise because the more qualities two people share the more they can relate and create a bond.
EX: if two people hate loud chewers and enjoy cleaning they can bond and live a similar lifestyle.
Compared to women men are less likely to be influenced by physical attraction vs potential of partner, both genders are similar when looking for relationships
Regardless of gender people are attracted to other by their potential to be a reliable partner and trustworthy companion.
Science is different from other ways of knowing
It’s repeatable, based on consensus, and probabilistic. There is proof and evidence that support the knowledge already presented.
Men and women asked to have sex vs coffee
75% of men said yes to a stranger to have sex and 0% women said yes. 50% of men said yes to coffee and some women said yes.
To analysis of research requires you to be thorough
define terms, identify the hypothesis, and evaluate the evidence. First you have to understand the event/how it all be manipulated, separate the hypothesis from the theory because it’s a prediction between the presumed cause and outcome.
Reliability VS Validity
consistency of a measure vs accuracy of a measure
EX: the sun rises every morning, the sun rises at 7:14 every morning.
Cause and effect only happens when there is a control
Is you can’t control it then it’s not cause and effect because there no implicated manipulation done to the experiment therefore it becomes a measurement
