PCYC 360 1st Edition Lecture3 Outline of Last Lecture II Review of Social Psychology III Syllabus Review Outline of Current Lecture II Research Methods Current Lecture We want to document and understand why people do what they do Aggression observable social behavior o Why do people display aggression Causation Deterministic Causation If A causes B then a must always be followed by B Ex Books falling over and knocking a book beside it down Probabilistic 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 too o Dropping a spoon Physical World o Watching parents give the spoon back Social Behavior Our 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 influences Aggression Situations Principle of Multiple Determinism Anything interesting is influenced by many factors Magic Bullet Fallacy Mistakenly believing that there is a single cause for a complex event Situations to influence Aggression home burglary What is the effect of playing violent video games influence aggressive behavior Soothing Effect No Effect Enflaming Effect Violent Video Game Fired up Freq Aggression Lo Played Violent Video game No Violent Video Game Opposite effect Aggression Hi Aggressive Personality
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