Midterm: Advanced Social Psychology

The movie I chose was Easy A because there are many psychological concepts this movie that relate to real-life events and it covers many theories we learned about in this class. Easy A was released in 2010 and directed by Will Gluck. It’s about a teenage girl named Olive who accidentally admits to her friend Rhi that she was having sexual relations with boys. She felt pressured into lying since her friend had already engaged in sexual acts with her boyfriend. A rumor then spread and many people in the school then ignored Olive because they thought what she did was an immoral act, but the guys started giving her more attention. I feel that this applies to many

In Chapter One, it discussed psychology’s roots and big ideas. In the first section of the power point that explained about how psychology came to be, Sigmund Freud’s contribution to Psychological Science sparked my interest. I have conducted my own research on him just two years ago for a project in the eighth grade and learned much about his personal life. I also recall in your last lecture, you mentioned how he interpreted dreams as representations of what our sexual desires and urges were. The slide on psychology’s current perspectives attracted my attention as well, more specifically the perspectives on behavior genetics, social-cultural psychology, and psychodynamics. Psychodynamics’ focus is how behavior comes from unconscious urges,

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Recently, empirical work within the predictive processing framework has started to question the role of consciousness in perceptual inference. Specifically, the idea that conscious awareness of sensory information is necessary to engage in predictive processing has been brought into question. Indeed, in the light of growing body of work demonstrating surprising functionality of unconscious neural activations, it can be asked (1) whether predictions can be formed based on regularities in the environment that we are not conscious of, (2) whether existing predictions be triggered not only by conscious, but also by unconscious cues, and (3) do we see neural signatures of prediction violation (i.e. prediction errors) in the case of an unconscious unexpected event? In this miniscriptie you will closely examine recent studies attempting to elucidate the relationship between consciousness and predictive processing by tackling these and other related

Representative Heuristics is used in making judgments under uncertainty. In making judgments, people usually pay attention to the similarity between such event and a standard process. In one example, when I had severe pain and had ulcers in my stomach, everybody in the family asked me about whether I had experienced stress and worries over my life. Everybody was concerned that I was young and had started worrying about life to the point of developing ulcers. In so doing, they referred to a similar case in the neighborhood where severe mental stress had resulted in severe ulcers. Yet, the ulcers were caused by a certain bacterial infection in my stomach. It was successfully treated and I regained my health.

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The field of psychology is increasingly expanding and becoming incorporated into other fields of study. From the study of behavioral economics to the burgeoning field of media psychology (with its emphasis on the effects of advertising, especially on children), literally anything that can be thought of is a possible venue for the probing, empirical analysis of various strains of psychological theory. And why not? There are currently 54 different divisions of the American Psychological Association. Not all are actual theoretical perspectives posited by psychology—such as behaviorism or social psychology—some are merely fields of interest within which a psychological focus has been found to be academically useful, or clinically

Anchoring occurs when individuals make judgments based off of an initial starting point. To demonstrate anchoring effect, the authors conducted a simple study in which subjects were asked to estimate the percentage of African countries in the United Nations. For each quantity, a number between 0 and 100 was determined by spinning a wheel of fortune in front of the participants. Participants were then required to state whether the number the wheel landed on was higher or lower than the percentage, and then to estimate the value of the quantity by moving up or down from a given quantity (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974). Different participant groups were provided with different numbers, which always had a marked effect on the answer given (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974). Therefore, the authors concluded that answers derived from this heuristic are highly dependent on the starting point. Furthermore, as a result of anchoring, people will be subjected to overestimate probability in some problems and underestimate probability in others (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974). Similarly, the authors conclude that the cognitive biases that result from reliance on judgmental heuristics, such as representativeness, anchoring, or availability are useful and somewhat reliable, but tend to lead to systematic

The movie touches on many of the concepts that were discussed in class pertaining to theories and contexts of delinquency. First the theories that were seen in the movie will be discussed and then the contexts of delinquency. The theories observed in the film were mainly psychological and sociological. The contexts of delinquency observed were family, violence, drug use, and peer group.

Within this chapter the book talks about social behaviors. Social psychology is a branch of psychology that deals with social interactions, including their origins and their effects on the individual. To introduce the section, we are constantly interacting with people and engaging in person perception, which is forming impressions of others. (pg634) Awareness of others are often swayed by people's appearance, especially if their looks are alluring. Looks are important because it is referred to those who are good looking are seen more often as more sociable, friendly, poised, warm and well adjusted.

‘Using social psychology theories, discuss the situational factors that affect the likelihood that people will engage in prosocial behaviour. What is the evidence for these effects, and how might changes in our society affect the likelihood of people acting prosocially?

Applied social psychology is one way that psychologist can study our thought, feeling and belief, and how we function around each other, in our everyday lives, here are the five issues that I will be addressing in my literature review they are social influence, Attribution Theory, Group polarization, Cognitive dissonance theory, and Observational Learning. Social applied psychology has been shown to dominant theories and practices of management and organization systematically favor some (elite) groups and/ or interests at the expense of those who are disadvantaged by them; and that this systemic inequality or interest- partiality is ultimately damaging to the emancipatory prospects of all groups. ( Alvesson, Bridgman, & Willmott, 2011, p.7). Most psychologist have research and applied this type of program to different studies to help people with their relationship, education, and interactions with the environment etc, as I research this field I can see me applying this to my everyday practice to help my clients with their well being.

Social Psychology is a broad field that incorporates aspects of both the sciences of Sociology and Psychology. This field of study is designed to help answer the question as to why people display certain behaviors due to their interaction with others. This field of study is very interesting due to its practicality, in regards to real-life demonstration, usage, and observation. In my life, I have held several jobs that have been heavily influenced by the dynamics of those who were around me. One job in particular was focused within the service industry; this ended with my resignation due to the unfavorable circumstances that I encountered in the work environment. Prior to making the decision to even apply for this job, I had been hesitant due to former employees and peers, who had reported poor working conditions. Despite the negative reviews that I had heard I went forward with my application, enticed by the idea of making more than minimum wage and working in an area close to my house. It was during this time period that I experienced one of the terms that we had learned during our class, known as post-decision cognitive dissonance. Later I would experience firsthand the concept of stereotype threat and conformity effect; both in a negative way, which would lead to my final resignation. This paper will explain several key terms that have are essential to social psychology; while also connecting them to a real life event that demonstrates their practicality in usage.

The existence of subliminal perception reveals the enormous processing capacity of the unconscious is enormous – “…if we accept that unconscious perceptual processes have a paramount influence on human

In particular, modern neurological research shows that people don 't think and draw conclusions in linear, hierarchical ways or in exclusively conscious ways. Instead, they glean cues and bits of information from all the senses, above and below awareness, to form a composite experiential impression that becomes a basis for preference, loyalty, and advocacy