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Rousseau

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Man by nature good and only institutions make him bad

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Hobbes

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Man by nature brutish, if not for civilizing constraints of society

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Cognitive

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How perception affects behaviour

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Learning

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On observable behaviour & ignore cognition

Responds based on prior learning

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Motivational

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Basic human needs

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Biological

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Evolutionary past & genetic disposition

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Cultural

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Affects on social behaviour

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Freud basic human condition

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Impulses controlled by society internalized during childhood
Conflict b/w instincts & demands

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ID

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Basic urges

Demand satisfaction now, regardless of consequences

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EGO

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Reality principle

Satisfy ID within societal norms

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SUPEREGO

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Internal rules of parents and society
If broken, punishment
ID repressed = other outlets

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Displacement

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Impulses redirected into safer course

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Reaction formation

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Original wish is supplanted the opposite

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Projection

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Urges are projected onto others

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Isolation

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Awareness of memories but not emotions

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4 levels of explaination

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Intra-personal
Inter-personal
Inter-group
Societal

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Psyxhosexual stages of development

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Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital
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Phallic stage

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Boys - oedipus complex

Girls - electra complex

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Problems with Freud

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Never studies children
Ideas no flasifiable (can’t be disproved)
Little experimental evidence

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Freud experimental evidence

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Data explained better via other studies

Experiments supporting Freud are flawed

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Bogus experiment

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Participants hooked to apparatus, can tell dishonesty

Little reason to lie

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Electromyography

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Measure facial muscles

Certain emotions = different facial muscles

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LaPiere

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Racist attitudes and behaviour
Chinese couple
Visited - 1 refused service
Wrote - 92% refused service

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Attitude stability and change

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Relatively stable
Inconsistency b/w attitude and behaviour
Can be changed by factors

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Knox and Inkster
Those placed bets were more confident of winning | Behaviour irrevocable = change attitude
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Himmelweit
No attitude change to capital punishment
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Factors that change attitude
Source: credible, attractive Message: quickly, without hesitation Approached: on sunny days, when happy
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Emotional appeal fear
Works when message evokes moderate-strong fear, provides ways to reduce threat
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McAlister et al.
Rehearsal of counter-arguments | Less likely to engage with that behaviour
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Attribution
People perception of the causes of an event affects what they do and how they feel
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Frey & Rogner
Accidents & injury Internal and external blame Pessimistic and optimistic = affect later life
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Motivational bias
Self-esteem - positive behaviour = increase and vis versa | Control - increased = success to internal characteristics
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Intrapersonal analysis
Analysis info and form attribution
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Conrospondence inference
Person's personality = behaviour
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Covariation & configuration | Kelley
Consistency Consensus Distinctiveness
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Interpersonal
Face to face attributions
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Actor observer effect
Cause of own actions = external factors | Cause of others actions = internal factors
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Self-serving bias
Take credit for success, not failure
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Intergroup
Examine way members of different groups explain behaviour
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Hunter et al
Reasoning Internal = external attributions External = internal attributions
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Societal | Miller
Western = internal explainations | Non - western = external explaination
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Mcknight interpersonal relationships
83% 'special partner' met in familiar social settings
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Zajonc
Mere exposure effect | Repeated exposure = more appealing
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Mita et al | Repeated stimulus
70% Prefer photo of own reversed mirror image Prefer normal photo of friends
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Reis
Initial interaction negative = reinforced and dislike will occur
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Emotional arousal
Emotionally aroused = rate others more attractive
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White et al.
Men running on spot rated women more attractive
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Daffon & Aaron
Anticipating electric shocks rated oppo sex more attractive
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Wakil et al.
out of 32 traits appearance 12th - men 22nd - women
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Green, Buchanan & Heuer
Dating service via photo matching | Looks = major determining factor
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Walter et al.
Blind date Rated attractiveness by independent observers on arrival Increase attractiveness = increase likelihood of being liked by date
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Men | Women
Physical | Psychological
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Benefits of attractiveness
Less aggressive | Increase chance of being hired
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Ravin & Rubin
More effort to revive D.O.A if attractive
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Cultural effects on attractiveness | Ingleby
Fat, diseased babies appealing in other cultures
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Similarity in partners
Attracted to people similar to themselves | Attitude, values, activities
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Kandel
BFs in HS = same age, race, academic grades
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Craddock
Married couples = same religion = happier
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Failed relationships
Women end ~60% of relationships More distress in conflict Better through separation
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Social facilitation
How the physical presence of others influence our behaviour
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Schmitt
Completing simple and complex tasks when others present Simple - improved Complex - decreased
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Zajone
Drive theory of facilitation Presence = increase arousal Dominant response = strengthened by arousal Non-dominant = weaken by arousal
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Michaels et al.
Good player = accuracy increases | Bad players = accuracy decreases
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Diffusion of responsibility | Latane & Darley
Increase group size, decrease individual responsibility
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Mann
Surrounded = lose self-awareness and becomes anonymous | Disinhibit impulses
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Zimbardo
Anonymit = agression | Increase in anti-social behaviour
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Beamen et al
Increase self-awareness = decrease anti-social behaviour
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Conformity
Control = no mistakes 75% went along with majority Answers given out loud
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Low status, shared identity
Resist oppression
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High status, shared identity
Brutality when promoted by tyrannical leader
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Minimal group paradigm | Tajfel et al.
Elict discrimination Assigned arbitrarily No self-interest greater benefits chosen for own group
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Why 65% went to dangerous levels
Responsibility transferred to experimenter - legitimate authority figure Begin with small punishments and progress greater Social identity with experiment and experimenter Experimenter's directness, legitimacy
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Factors affecting obedience
Remoteness of victim Closeness and legitimacy of authority figure Diffusion of responsibility Characteristics of teacher

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