CAS PS 261 Midterm: Social Psych Study Guide 1
5 Mar 2018
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Social psychology is the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. Individual factors are internal to the person: social situations are external factors to the person. Measuring all the variables can cause ambiguity within results: correlation does not equal causation, taiwan experiment, experimental research, researcher manipulates (changes the value of) one variable, and measures related changes in a second variable. Causal inferences can be drawn: exceptions to research findings do not invalidate the overall results, there are always exceptions regardless of how great or organized the research was, hindsight bias. The self: the self is a very social influenced thing, we overestimate how much attention people are paying to us, we are the center of our social worlds, spotlight effect. Illusion of transparency: the belief that people can read your emotions, people think you"re transparent and you think they can see how you"re feeli(cid:374)g/e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s (cid:271)ut i(cid:374) reality people (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t.
