PSYC 221 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Reciprocal Altruism, Cognitive Dissonance, Normative Social Influence
14 May 2016
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A word of advice: read the textbook chapters thoroughly (but you can skip over any section that i tell you to skip; see below). The chapters that will be covered are 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, You should also review the part of chapter 5 (social cognition & attitudes, p. 66-68) because you will need to know the section on attitudes research. Everything in these portions of the textbook is fair game for the exam. **note: the most recent unit of material on religion/morality/political psychology will. It will be covered on the final exam instead: attitudes & attitude change. Ex: people use their attitudes affect others and also their attitudes are effected by others. Attitude formation (a) learning theory rewards/punishments, observations/modeling. Operant conditioning, bandura doll (b) social networks, relationships, and attitude similarity. Direction of causality is unclear regarding whether people in the same social network influence each other"s attitude to be similar (c) mere exposure.
