Psychology 360 Test 2 09 26 2013 The Self How do we live with ourselves Our impressions of other people Self Awareness Thinking about yourself o Self is very social o Pay attention to yourself when other people are paying attention to us Benefit from the attention Starts inside your head and then changes your behavior o You know yourself o Does self awareness make us better people Halloween trick or treat one house all the lights are off bad house house all decorated with lights good house third house all the lights are off except the one at the door with bowl full of candy and a note that says only take one Did study like the third house and measured how much candy the kids took even with the note in the study only 34 of the kids cheated Used a mirror with random assignment flipped coin and heads mirror tails no mirror reach down to take the candy and see a mirror of yourself Decreased to 12 Halloween story tells us Self awareness can lead us to behave better Does it always Self Awareness Theory o Self Awareness Being who I want to be 1 Am I being who I want to be 100 Honest 0 Goal Yes Positive emotion affect feel proud satisfied delighted Your living up to your goal No Negative emotions affect thinking I m about to cheat I m not a cheater I want to do what s right Do better change your behavior Lower the bar Bar What Bar o Students given opportunity to cheat o Read academic honor code o Complete series of Math Problems Solve up to 20 math problems Each 0 50 each o Grade your own work o Grabbed their own payment and threw paper away in trashcan o Memory of honor code Which of the following constitutes academic misconduct Who is hurt by academic misconduct Cheaters got less correct on this test 2 3 non cheaters 3 7 o Correlational study o Also read about what you need to do to get a drivers license Drivers license questions Honest got 3 1 non cheaters got 3 2 selective amnesia Avoid self awareness Mirror Mirror on the wall study Egalitarian man men and women should have equal rights First task recite statements into microphone tape recorded o A women s place is in the home o Wives should submit to their husband s authority Second task room with chairs on opposite walls and placed exactly the same Measured where they sat in the room o Only 20 of these guys sat on the right side of the room mirror on the left side of the room Control group said random statements instead of sexist o Egalitarian Control group sat 50 50 o Egalitarian Man that made sexist statements 25 2 o Sexist Men normal statements 50 o Sexist men sexist statements 72 Avoid it getting drunk over eating ice cream Jackie Brown Cheaters forgot details of an honor code they d just read When we feel bad we want to feel better 09 26 2013 What best describes social influence The effect that society has on individuals Which of the following questions is a social psychologist most likely going to ask Are people more likely to help someone in need when other potential helpers are around Which of the following is an instance of na ve realism that is most likely to be of interest to social psychologist For which public health and safety problems have messages designed to scare people into engaging in safer behavior largely been ineffective Unsafe sex How does social psychology differ from philosophy Philosophers are more likely to rely more heavily on logic Which of the following is considered an acceptable source of research hypotheses All of the above Which of the following studies would provide the strongest evidence for its conclusion Finding In a sample of 800 adults drawn randomly from the American population 680 respondents 85 agreed with the statement I find it annoying that Tumblr doesn t have an e Conclusion Length of commute influences job satisfaction Thirty students come into the laboratory with several Mac computers along one wall and several Dell computers along the other wall They are invited to choose any of the computers and write a haiku Those who chose Macs spend significantly longer 2 8 min on the task Later a panel of haiku experts rated the haiku written by those who had used Macs to be much more creative What can we conclude from these findings There was a correlation between choosing to use a Mac and the creativity of student s haiku According to lecture can it be ethically acceptable to conduct a study in which research participants are lied to by the experimenter treated badly by a confederate and experience emotional distress Yes Why do we have schema s All of the above they help organize the world they help fill in the blanks in our understanding of the world they help make sense of confusing situations The text describes a study that investigated the relationship between elementary school teachers expectations for their students performances and the students subsequent performance What statement provides the best explanation for the results of the experiment Teachers gave more attention to students for whom they had high expectations Which research finding below provides evidence for the availability heuristic People were asked to remember either 6 or 12 times when they had been assertive Those asked to remember 6 assertive acts subsequently reported that they were more assertive people Which of the following is the best example of an external attribution The receiver dropped the ball because the linebacker was so tall that the receiver never saw the ball According to research how effectively do people communicate emotions in various forms of communication They communicate emotions less effectively in email than over the phone they communicate emotions less effectively in email than in person Which statement best describes our understanding of cultural differences in the types of attributions people make North Americans are less likely than Asians to make internal attributions Hindsight bias Little slips of paper with research sayings opposites attract Northwestern football fans before the game and after the game Translate into symbols x is correlated with y X y Translate into words x y x influences y A variety of research has made it clear that there is a strong relationship between attending college and openness to experience those who have attended some amount of college are more open to new experiences One possible explanation for this relationship is that attending college influences openness to experience In other words provide one other alternative explanation A 3rd variable influences