PCYC 360 1st Edition Lecture3 Outline of Last Lecture II. Review of Social PsychologyIII. Syllabus ReviewOutline of Current Lecture II. Research MethodsCurrent LectureWe want to document and understand why people do what they do. - Aggression (observable social behavior)o Why do people display aggression? CausationDeterministic Causation- If A causes B, then a must always be followed by B. - Ex. – Books falling over and knocking a book beside it downProbabilistic Causation- (causation in the social world) A’s occurrence increases the likelihood of B - Ex. - Smoking causes cancer. Not everyone who smokes will get cancer and some people who have not smoked will get cancer.-Never any guarantees. Just trying to find trends.Laws of Human Behavior = Probabilistic Causation Behavior = Probabilistic Causation- We test the physical world as infants and social behaviors tooo Dropping a spoon – Physical Worldo Watching parents give the spoon back – Social BehaviorOur human perception is inaccurate. -Everyone has a different perception. Everyone has different definitions for things. Hindsight Bias-Tendency to think we knew it all along (even when we didn’t). These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.o Ex. Football fans not knowing whether the team would win or not before the game, but after the loss or win the fan says they KNEW the team would have that outcome.We use our intuition to understand the social world. But the reality of the situation can be totally different. Aggression.Personality influencesAggressionSituationsPrinciple of Multiple Determinism- Anything interesting is influenced by many factorsMagic Bullet Fallacy- Mistakenly believing that there is a single cause for a complex event- Situations to influence Aggression: home burglaryWhat is the effect of playing violent video games influence aggressive behavior?- Soothing Effect- No Effect- Enflaming EffectViolent Video Game Fired upFreq. Aggression Played Violent Video gameNo Violent Video Game Aggression Aggressive PersonalityOpposite
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