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social psychology
scientific study of how our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are shaped by the real or imagined presence of others” and other environmental cues.
social psychology includes content from other fields such as
- abnormal psychology
- developmental psychology
- personality psychology
- sociology
social psychology includes methods from other fields such as
- philosophy
- cognitive psychology
- neuropsychology
ways to measure dependent variable
observation
survey
behavioural measure (ex hot sauce)
physiological measure (ex fmri)
internal validity
nothing other other than x can affect y
external validity
the extent to which results can be generalized
experimental realism
situation is realistic to participant
mundane realism
similar to event likely to occur outside of lab
measurement validity
y really measures what its trying to measure
insufficient power
sample size, power generally set at 80%
solutions to replicability crisis
replications
open data and methods
preregistration
limits of introspection
emotion
attitude
we make up reasons for our own behaviour
looking glass self
belief about how others would view our behaviour shape our feelings about that behaviour
social comparison
downwards: compare with someone worse than self
upwards: compare with someone better than self
self perception theory
when feelings are ambiguous we infer states by observing behaviour and situation (ex. i must love stephen king because i read alot of his books)
working self concept is influenced by
optimal distinctiveness (ex. being a woman in a room full of men)
functions of the self
organization -self schema controlling -guide actions -long term planning emotion -determine emotional responses
self discrepancy theory
actual/ought/ideal
ideal associated with dejection
ought associated with agitation
social comparison affect on self esteem
downwards: increases
upwards: decreases
temporal comparison and self esteem
recall past as worse than it was
feel closer to successful past selves than unsuccessful ones
social identity and self esteem
prefer to associate with positive successful groups
self serving bias
good things have internal causes
bad things have external causes
Pro: preserve positive self view
Con: avoid taking responsibility
illusion of superiority
most people think that they’re above average
well like in short term not long run
inability to recognize own incompetence
unrealistic optimism
cons: illusion of invulnerability
risk taking
schemas
structures used to organize knowledge about the world
kinds of schemas
objects
psychological
person
events/scripts
function of schemas
efficiency predictability processing ambiguous information attention memory
cognitive confirmation bias
processing information about people in a way that confirms or support the schema, stereotypes
biased hypothesis testing
asking questions that will probably get a negative response
availability heuristic
how easily accessible memories are
representativeness heuristic
classify something by how similar it is to a typical case
anchor heuristic
comparison standard biases the estimate
james-lang theory of emotions
emotions occur as result of physiological reactions to event ex. facial feedback hypothesis
schachter singer theory of emotion
emotional is based off physiological arousal and appraisal ex. misattribution of arousal