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Social Psychology

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What is social psychology?   study of the social mind  
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Social Brain   Amygdala, Fusiform Gyrus, STS, Prefrontal Cortex  
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Amygdala   regulate emotions, such as fear and aggression  
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Fusiform Gyrus   face perception, object recognition, and reading  
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STS (S.. Temporal Sulcus)   including the perception of faces and human motion, as well as understanding others' actions, mental states, and language.  
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Prefrontal Cortex   reasoning, problem solving, comprehension, impulse-control, creativity and perseverance  
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Social psychology is not where we think   is the scientific understanding of what it is like to be a person- why our existence at this moment in time and space feels like major journals reveals a jarring discrepancy between the official account of the field and the actual state  
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Objections Anticipated   It leaves things out It doesn’t leave anything out It was all said long ago by people with better clothes  
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It leaves things out   unconscious process is the flip side of conscious experience; just as we learn about a phenomenon by studying its boundary conditions, we learn about human experience by discover where it starts and stops  
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It doesn’t leave anything out   we do not think social psychology is the science of everything. Plenty of useful questions and answers lies outside the psychology of human experience  
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It was all said long ago by people with better clothes   We study experience because it is the thing about which we want to know, and for a while that made social psychology a rather lonely place to be. But as it happens, scientists in various allied fields are now heading in our direction.  
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What do Dan and Wegner   the human experience  
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Aristotle   Anyone who wants to be isolated from the world is considered a God or a beast. He considers them this because humans are naturally social, they need human interaction and we also need others to help with our knowledge  
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Examples from chapter 1 (Social Animal)   illustrate social psychology situations. As diverse as they seem to be, they contain a common factor; social influence  
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Defining social psychology   the scientific study of influences of real, imagined or implied presence of others on our beliefs, feelings and behavior Also addresses reciprocal influence how we influence others  
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Focuses on some of society’s most disturbing and difficult questions   Influences of others Scientific- method, hypothesis, experimental data Real, imagined, implied Beliefs, feelings, behaviors  
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Hindsight bias   our tendency usually erroneous to overestimate our powers of prediction once we know the outcome  
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Loss aversion   we are more likely to avoid losing something than try to achieve gains  
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Negativity bias   It takes longer to get to the baseline after a negative event; more likely to pick out angry faces than smiling ones  
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Barnum effect   when people are given vague, all-purpose descriptions of themselves that could apply to anyone  
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Cloak of invisibility   feeling that we observe and notice others more than they do us  
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Spotlight (Gilovich)   perception that social spotlight occurs more brightly than it actually does  
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Egocentric bias   placing oneself in the center of our own universe  
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Confirmation bias   occurs when we accept information already believed and disconfirmation what we need  
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Naive realism   a phenomenon that reality is really reality; appeals to common sense  
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Bias blind spot   the belief that we are less bias than other people are  
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The mind's two processing system   Automatic processing and controlled processing  
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Automatic processing   Unconscious (implicit) operations Guides most of behaviors as well as well-learned routines Fast, efficient responses to sensory input  
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controlled processing   Conscious (explicit) operations Deals with novel or complex input  
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Impression formation   group outperforms those trying to memorize facts  
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Social identity theory (Henri Tajfel)   Most important group memberships feed sense of belonging and self-worth  
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Fundamental Attribution Error   an individual's tendency to attribute another's actions to their character or personality, while attributing their behavior to external situational factors outside of their control  
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Dispositional   Personality  
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Situational   Social  
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Central contribution   developing on appreciation for a more complex situational view of human behavior understanding the many social contextual influences in our lives  
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Social Psychology   Level of analysis is the individual -Highlights the power of the immediate situation -emphasis the influence of our subjective interpretations (aka construals)  
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Where is social psychology situated?   personality psychology  
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Focus on the person and stable characteristics, rather than the situation   personality psychology  
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Focus on “disordered” , rather than “normal” populations   clinical psychology  
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Focus on the influence of temporal factors on psychological processes   Developmental psycholog  
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Focus on the psychology with in the context of network   Industrial organizational psychology  
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Focus on the underlying neurological processes   Neuroscience  
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Level of analysis in psychology, rather than individual   sociology  
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Research Methods in Social Psychology   Social psychology is a science, meaning we rely on experiments and careful observation of many people before coming to conclusions, it is empirical  
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Ways to Test Hypothesis   Descriptive Research Correlation Research Experimental Research  
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Descriptive Research   to provide a clear, accurate picture of people's behaviors, thoughts and attributes  
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