[PSYCH 280] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (34 pages long!)
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A general rule of conduct reflecting standards of social approval or disapproval. Social psychology - scientific study of how people think, feel, & behave in regard to other people and how individuals" thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are affected by other people. People react differently to the same situation. Often overwhelms one"s personality (or individual learning histories) Situation itself, how it is perceived, underlying processes of perceiving and reacting to situations. Certain situational circumstances that appear unimportant on the surface but can have great consequences for behavior, either causing or blocking it or guiding behavior in a particular direction. When you have to opt in, less people are organ donors. When you have to opt out, more people are organ donors. Evolution - commonalities in human adaptive behavior, natural selection; physical characteristics and behavioral inclinations. **does not mean that behaviors are a result of evolution** Naturalistic fallacy - claims that the way things are is the way they should be.
