PSYC 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Angel Food Cake, Word Game, Social Influence
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How does naive dialecticism vs logical reasoning work? . Ex. paradoxes: sometimes you must be cruel to be kind, you should only go into the water after you know how to swim. How do experimental vs correlational thinking differ? correlations: looking for 1 variable to increase or decrease as another variable increases or decreases - cannot determine causality b/c may be other variables causing both. Experiments: manipulate one variable to cause change in 2nd variable - helps establish cause b/c if 3rd variable causing both, then 2nd variable would not change. Can we go over the castro study again? . Hypothesis: if participants are making the fae, then they will attribute behaviour to dispositions even when situational forces constrain behaviour task: read essays that are either pro or anti-castro, determine author"s opinion. Author was assigned to write pro or anti. Author chose to write pro or anti themselves. Dv: participant"s rating of author"s opinion about castro.
