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Operant conditioning (instrumental conditioning) ~~> Skinner Social Psychology ~~> the scientific study of how we feel about, and behave toward the people around us and how our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors are influenced by those people Kurt Lewin ~~> Father of Social Psychol...

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PSY 252 CAL POLY EXAM 1
Questions and Answer | Latest
Update 2024/2025
Operant conditioning (instrumental conditioning)


~~> Skinner




Social Psychology


~~> the scientific study of how we feel about, and behave toward the

people around us and how our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors are

influenced by those people




Kurt Lewin


~~> Father of Social Psychology, developed many ideas like dynamic

interactions




Leon Festinger


~~> Edited "Research Methods in Behavioral Sciences"; Introduced the use

of deception in experiments




John Darley and Bibb Latane



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~~> Altruism; when people do and don't help others




Leonard Berkowitz


~~> pioneered the study of human aggression




Irving Janis


~~> Focused on group behavior and group think; why can groups of

intelligent people make disastrous decisions when grouped together




Gordon Allport and Muzafir Sherif


~~> Focused on intergroup relations, why stereotyping, prejudice, and

discrimination




Social Cognition


~~> an understanding of how our knowledge about our social worlds

develops through experience and the influence of these knowledge

structures on memory, information processing, attitudes, and judgement




Why is human decision flawed?




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~~> cognitive and motivational processes




Social neuroscience


~~> the study of how our social behavior both influences and is influenced

by the activities of our brain




Social situation


~~> the people with whom we interact every day - family, friends, religious

groups, as well as people we see on TV, or interact with on web, people we

think about, remember, or imagine




The social situation is usually more influential than a person's characteristics




Social psychologists believe that human behavior is caused by


~~> a person's characteristics and social situation




Social influence


~~> the process through which other people change our thoughts, feelings,

and behaviors through which we change theirs




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Person-situation interaction


~~> Kurt Lewin: Behavior= f(person, social situation) function of (depends on)

person's characteristics and influence of a social situation




evolutionary adaptation


~~> The assumption that human nature, including much of our social

behavior, is determined largely by our evolutionary past




fitness


~~> the extent to which having a given characteristic helps the individual

organism to survive and to reproduce at a higher rate than do other

members of the species who do not have the characteristic.




Fitter organisms pass on...


~~> Their genes more successfully to later generations, making the

characteristics that produce fitness more likely to become part of the

organisms' nature than are characteristics that do not produce fitness




genes provide us..




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