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weeks 1-5 PSYC121 Flashcards

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weird population

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Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, Democracies- neglected 95%

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Zimbardo

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vandalised car- 1969

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Theory

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a systemic way of organizing and explaining observations, which includes a set of propositions, or statements, about the relationships among various phenomena and/or a set of statements designed to explain a set of phenomena: more encompassing than a hypothesis

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Hypothesis

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a statement that can be tested (narrowing down from theory, more specific)

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phrenology

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personality from shape of skull- gall

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craniometry

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measurement of skull reflects intelligence- broca

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tabula rasa

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locke- blank slate

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bentham

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the panopticon- giant prison

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sheldon

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personality by body types, endo (slow), meso (competitive), ecto (restrained)

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Francis Galton

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Heritability of intellect

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Rosenthal

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pigmalion = + = +
golem = - = -

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Landsberger

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Hawthorne effect- subjects of a study change their behavior

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Bandura

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social cognitive theory- observing violence impacts behavior

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norman triplett

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first social psyc experiment- 1897- biking- social facilitation- performing better with others around

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sherif (1935)

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the autokinetic effect- small light in dark room, frame of reference developed alone persists in groups but not as stable, developed in groups persists alone

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asch (1951-1956)

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conformity in unambigious situations- what’s the bigger line- ontrol group: 37 people + 18 trials, gave answers individually (alone). Experimental group: All but one of participants were confederates. Experimental group: The average error rate across participants 37%. 25% - zero errors. 28% - 8+ errors (out of 12 experimental trials). 47% - 1 to 7 errors (out of 12 experimental trials). Control group: Average error rate for any given participant
0.7%.

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informal influence

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conversion- oh you’re right

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normative influence

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compliance- you’re wrong but ok

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independance v anticonformity

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don’t conform- i = on principle, a = fuck u authority

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milgram (1961)

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obedience- shock- Control group subjects:
In a control condition in which the participants were allowed to select the level of punishment shocks:
Only 2 out of 40 (5%) exceeded 150 volts
28 out of 40 (70%)never went beyond 75 volts.- Experimental group subjects:
62.5% continued to administer shocks
at the highest level, 368 Volts was the average shock level administered

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when does conformity increase

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Conformity increases as groups size increases (to a maximum)
Asch (1951) ran variations with majorities of between 1 and 16.
1 person = no effect
2 people = 13% errors
3 people = 31.8% errors
4+ people = no significant increase in errors

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Authoritarian Personality

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the authoritarian personality was theorised as originating in childhood in
response to excessively harsh and disciplinarian parenting intended to
produce emotional dependence and obedience in the child.- obedient to authority- Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswik, Levinson, and Sanford (1950)

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23
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enculturation

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caregivers teach kids through example

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24
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etic

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universal

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25
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emic

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cultural

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Hofstede’s cultural values

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Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance, Individualism/Collectivism, Masculinity/Femininity, Long/Short Term Orientation, and Indulgence/Restraint

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Correspondence Bias/fundamental attribution error

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Tendency to attribute other’s behaviour to internal dispositions rather than situational constraints

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Self-Serving Bias

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Tendency to attribute our own positive outcomes to internal, stable ‘causes’, and negative outcomes to external, unstable factors)

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Zimbardo

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stanford prison experiment- 1971- 24 participants- 6 days/14-

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30
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Depersonalisation

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stop thinking about themselves as individual, part of the group

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Deindividuation

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loss of self-awareness in groups

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cognitive dissodance

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feeling uncomfortable from 2 conflicting thoughts at once- increases with:
* The importance of the subject.
* Strength of the conflict between dissonant thoughts.
* Our inability to rationalize and explain away the conflict- i.e. we believe something but behavior is inconsistent

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33
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Festinger & Carlsmith (1956)

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“Measures of performance” (12 spools, 48 pegs), 20 Control group, 20 $1 group, 20 $20 group- had to say boring experiment was fun- group $1 started to believe the experiment was more interesting than it actually was

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ethics

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morality, the difference between right and wrong- informed consent, assent + parental consent for under 16s

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bioethical principles

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respect for autonomy, beneficience and non maleficience (when you do something you should be doing it for good/not for bad), justice (maintain a just world and not cause division, inequality, unhapiness pain)

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correlation

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r (corelation coefficient) (df- n-2) = (2 digits, no 0.), p (3 digits, no 0.)

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ringelmann (1913)

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Efficiency of different size groups of animals/people performing agricultural tasks. Eg. Young men (alone or in groups of 2,3, or 8) pulling rope attached to dynamometer. Result- force exerted per person decreased as function of group size, the Ringelmann effect

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Ingham, Levinger, Graves and Peckham (1974)

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One control condition: Individual pulling alone. Two experimental conditions:
* Real groups: Groups of subjects actually
pulling together * Pseudo-groups: Individual subject at front pulling with group of confederates (instructed to pretend to be pulling)- Motivation loss (pseudo groups)
Coordination loss (real groups), the greater portion of decrease in performance is psychological (motivation loss)

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Latane, Williams and Harkins (1979)

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replicated Ingham et al (1974) using shouting, cheering, and clapping tasks (as much noise as possible)
coined ‘social loafing’, individual makes more noise than pseudo and real groups

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social loafing

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a person exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when working alone

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‘bystander effect’

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the finding that a lone bystander is more likely to give aid than any one of several bystanders.

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latane and rodin (1969)

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male subject completed questionnaires in a waiting room alone, or with a friend, or confederate.
subjects hear a woman in an adjacent room having difficulty with a filing cabinet- crash! cry of pain, moans and groans
results:
subjects alone - 70% helped
pairs of subject- 40% helped
subject plus passive confederate- 7% helped

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Latane and Darley (1970)

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male students invited to an interview to discuss university experiences- smoke starts filling the room
hypothesis- in an emergency people will look to others before deciding what to do
results:
alone- 75% took positive action
with two strangers- 38%
with confederates- 10%
conclusion- the presence of others inhibit people’s response in an emergency- the more people the slower the response

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3 stages of burnout

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Emotional exhaustion - Depersonalization - Reduced personal accomplishment

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depersonalisation

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treating others like objects, or without regard for feelings, Is an attempt to distance oneself from clients/others

46
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first signs of ptsd

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Nostalgia, soldier’s heart, and
railway spine (tended to be exposed/witness many more serious injuries than other profession), shell shock, combat stress reaction (“battle fatigue”),
“Gross Stress Reaction”

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dsm ptsd

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PTSD added to DSM-III in 1980, removed
from anxiety disorders in DSM-5, shifted PTSD to a new category - Trauma- and stressor-related disorders

48
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ptsd stats

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~60% of men, and ~50% of women will experience at least one traumatic event.
In the US, ~4% men, ~10% women will receive PTSD diagnosis

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What is “trauma”?

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According to the APA (DSM-5) it’s when an individual person is exposed to
“actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence.”

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Independent variables (IVs)

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are those manipulated by the researcher, they are varied deliberately and systematically to see what impact they have on dependent variables

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Dependent variables (DVs)

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which are those observed by the researcher, who records the changes occurring in them.

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Predictor variables

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Rather than having IVs and DVs in some types of research (correlational designs) the variables we would usually call IVs and
DVs are called predictor variables.

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Control variables

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are those held constant during an experiment by the researcher in an attempt to avoid extraneous variables

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Extraneous variables

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which confound (or contaminate) the findings in an experiment. Such variables are any variables (apart from the independent variable) that seem likely to influence the dependent variable. For example, the amount of food consumed (and when) may confound results when testing for the effects of alcohol on memory

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Within Subject Designs

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involve all participants being assigned to all levels of the independent variable (all experimental conditions) and the control
condition.

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Between Subject Designs

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involve different participants being assigned to different conditions

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Experimenter effects

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Where the experimenter accidentally (or otherwise) affects the results by providing participants with cues as to his/her expectations.

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Confounding

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Of variables occurs whenever two or more variables vary together in a way
that makes it difficult to sort out their independent effects.

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Demand characteristics

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any cues available to the participant that may enable them to determine the purpose of the experiment are termed demand characteristics, and can lead to placebo effects and distortion of self-report data

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Ceiling and floor effects

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performance on a dependent variable is very nearly perfect or very nearly lacking on each occasion of testing. These occur when the measurement of the dependent variable has a too limited range that does not accurately reflect the possible changes that could occur (i.e. not “long” enough)

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clinical or case study

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observational research when they focus on one person or just a few individuals

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inter-rater reliability

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a measure of reliability that assesses the consistency of observations by different observers

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cross-sectional research

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a researcher compares multiple segments of the population at the same time

64
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wilhelm wundt

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structuralism- focus was on the contents of mental processes rather than their function- used introspection, a process by which someone examines their own conscious experience as objectively as possible

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william james

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focused on how mental activities helped an organism fit into its environment- the function

66
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Psychoanalytic theory- freud

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focuses on the role of a person’s unconscious, as well as early childhood experiences

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John B. Watson

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behaviorism

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B. F. Skinner

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Skinner box- behavior is influenced by consequences

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Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers

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humanism- perspective within psychology that emphasizes the potential for good that is innate to all humans- maslow’s hierarchy of needs

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placebo effect

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when people’s expectations or beliefs influence or determine their experience in a given situation

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single-blind study/double blind study

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participants are unaware as to which group they are in while the researcher knows which participants are in each group/both the researchers and the participants are blind to group assignments.

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Social psychology

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examines how people affect one another

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Situationism

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the view that our behavior and actions are determined by our immediate environment and surroundings

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dispositionism

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holds that our behavior is determined by internal factors

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individualistic culture

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a culture that focuses on individual achievement and autonomy

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collectivistic culture

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a culture that focuses on communal relationships with others, such as family, friends, and community

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actor-observer bias

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phenomenon of attributing other people’s behavior to internal factors (fundamental attribution error) while attributing our own behavior to situational forces

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just-world hypothesis

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the belief that people get the outcomes they deserve

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Cultural psychology

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interdisciplinary study of how culture reflects and shapes the mind and behavior of its members

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Cross-cultural psychology

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uses culture to test the universality of psychological processes

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culture

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patterns of learned and shared behavior that are cumulative and transmitted across generations

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Deception in studies

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purposely misleading experiment participants in order to maintain the integrity of the experiment, but not to the point where the deception could be considered harmful. In cases where deception is involved, participants must receive a full debriefing upon conclusion of the study—complete, honest information about the purpose of the experiment, how the data collected will be used, the reasons why deception was necessary, and information about how to obtain additional information about the study.

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Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)

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charged with ensuring that all experimental proposals require the humane treatment of animal research subjects

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institutional review board (IRB)

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review proposals for research that involves human participants

85
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Dov Cohen and his colleagues (1996)

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cohen research team invited dozens of university students into the lab to see how they responded to aggression. Half were from the Southern United States (a culture of honor- emphasizes personal or family reputation) and half were from the Northern United States (not a culture of honor). Northern United States- 35% having anger ratings as high as or higher than amusement ratings, South- 85% of whom had anger ratings as high as or higher than amusement ratings

86
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Alice Isen and Paula Levin, 1972

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Half of the unsuspecting participants (determined by random assignment) found a dime planted by researchers (I know! A dime!) in the coin slot, while the other half did not. Presumably, finding a dime felt surprising and lucky and gave people a small jolt of happiness. Immediately after the unsuspecting participant left the phone booth, a confederate walked by and dropped a stack of papers. Almost 100% of those who found a dime helped to pick up the papers. And what about those who didn’t find a dime? Only 1 out 25 of them bothered to help.

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Latané and Darley’s Stages of Helping

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Noticing, Interpreting, Taking responsibility, Implementing Action- The social situation has an important influence on whether or not we help.

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Pluralistic ignorance

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occurs when people think that others in their environment have information that they do not have and when they base their judgments on what they think the others are thinking

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