Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Psychology: The Study
of Mind and Behavior
- Research Methods
- Need for
Empiricism
- Need for
Empiricism
- Hindsight Bias: Tendency to believe that
one would have predicted an outcome after
learning the outcome
- Overconfidence
- Perception in
Random Order
Events
- Observation Methods
- Experimentation
- Theory:An explanation that
predicts future events based off
of recorded observation
- Hypothesis:
Testable
prediction
- Operational Definition:
Exact procedures used,
make experiments
recreatable
- Control Group
- Variables:
Independent,
Dependent,
Confounding
- Case Studies
- one individual or group is
studied in depth in the hope of
revealing universal principle
- Naturalistic Observation
- Observing behaviors in a
natural environment without
controlling it
- Effectiveness
- random and
representative
sample
- Correlation
- not prove causation
but can suggest
posibility
- Validity
- Social Psychology
- Statistical
Significance:
<.05
- Attribution
theory
- Fundamental
- We overestimate a person’s
personality and
underestimate their
situation
- Self
Serving
Bias
- Overestimate our own
situation rather than
judging our personality
- Persuasion
- Peripheral: no
logic or reason,
flashy
- Central: logical argument
- Foot in the Door
Phenomenon
- Door in the Face
Phenomenon
- Attitudes
affect
actions
- Role: series of
norms w social
position
- Cognitive
Dissonance
- Conformity
- Asch's Line Test
- Compliance
- Obedience
- Milgram's shock test
- Empathy,
mood
linkage
- Normative:
desire to gain
approval
- Normative:
desire to gain
approval
- Informative:
accept
other
opinions
- Group
Influences
- Social Facilitation
(home field
advantage)
- Deindividualism
- Deindividualism
- Groupthink:
change
beliefs for
harmony
- Group
Polarization:
push to
extremes
- Prejudice
- Ingroup
vs.
Outgroup
- Scapegoat
Theory
- Just World
Phenomenon
- Vivid Case
- Abnormal Psychology and Treatment
- Learning
- Memory