PSYCH 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Self Esteem (Song), Milgram Experiment, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Instructed to shock another participant for any wrong answers: at higher shock levels, the learner begins to scream in pain and demand that the experiment ends, later, the learner stops making any sound at all. Channel factors: channel factors= small situational factors leading to large effects on behavior by guiding behavior in a particular direction, ex. More likely to get the flu if given a campus map. Interpretation and inferences made about a stimulus or situation. Interpretations may misrepresent the truth: construal can govern behavior. Social and nonsocial information may be processed two different ways: automatic processing, automatic, involuntary, and unconscious, often based on emotional responses, unconscious. Influences us without our awareness: muscular feedback, e. g. ratings of attractiveness when pushing vs. pulling your, controlled processing hand on a surface, conscious, systematic, and deliberate, controlled processing can override automatic responses. Hypotheses: testable beliefs about the relationship between events.
