Psychology and Society (4PAHPSOP)

Complete revision and summary notes for Social Influence for BSc Psychology: Psychology and Society Module. Written by a straight A* King's College London student set for a 1st. Well organised and in order. Includes diagrams and full reference section and collated information from class, textbooks and online. Notes are based around these Learning Objectives: 5.1. Explain the factors that increase the likelihood of imitating observed behaviour and give an example of social contagion. ...

Complete revision and summary notes for Social Contagion for BSc Psychology: Psychology and Society Module. Written by a straight A* King's College London student set for a 1st. Well organised and in order. Includes diagrams and full reference section and collated information from class, textbooks and online. Notes are based around these Learning Objectives: 2.1. Describe the psychological motives influencing thinking about the social world 2.2. Compare and contrast the two (cogniti...

Covers: - Conformity and the Asch experiment - Conformity or compromise? - Obedience and the Milgram experiment - The Stanford prison experiment and Ethics - Minority influence

Covers: - Attitudes and Behaviour - The Theory of Planned Behaviour - The intention behaviour gap - Emotions - Models of emotions, cognition and behaviour

Covers: - The fundamental attribution error - From FAE to correspondence bias - Bounded Rationality - Confirmation Bias - Anchoring - Framing - A critique of Heuristics and Biases

Covers: - Cognitive Dissonance theory - Dissonance in the Real World - Explaining cognitive dissonance - The Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion - Evidence of ELM

Covers: - The self Concept - Possible selves - Self-awareness - Social Comparisons - Self-presentation & Impression Management