CGS SS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter social psychology ss101: Rosenhan Experiment, Confirmation Bias
11 Apr 2017
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Social psychology: is the scientific field that seeks to understand the nature and causes of human behavior and though in social situations. * say and do things in a group situation where ou won"t do when you are alone. * power of social group and dynamics that affect thought and behavior. * the thomas dictum: " if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences. "". How we define a situation determines how we act. * a social situation is whatever the participants agree that it is. * the dispositional perspective: because he is the kind of person who would do that. * individual characteristics of personality, character, the way he was raised, maybe because of a personal hang up. * in a social psychology experiment, an experimenter creates a controlled situation to see how subjects will respond in that situation. * a confederate is pretending to be a subject but is really working with the experimenter.
