Stanford prison study
We studied this experiment in one of my classes last year and then I watched the movie on it and it was extremely disturbing
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- Sep 2018
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primingPrimingThe process by which exposing people to one stimulus makes certain thoughts, feelings or behaviors more salient.,
we just learned about this in my AP psychology class
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performance on simple or well-rehearsed tasks tends to be enhanced when we are in the presence of others (even when we are not competing against them)
This is interesting because I never really thought that competing with others could enhance your performance, but now that I do, it seems totally accurate.
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In summary, there are many cognitive processes and behaviors that occur outside of our awareness and despite our intentions
its interesting that so much goes on within us that we don't have control of. humans tend to think that we are in control of all of our actions and our free will but there is so much more that goes on that dictates how we act and feel
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planning fallacy
I definitely suffer from this because I procrastinate and underestimate how long an assignment will take.
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Another example is the very common fear of flying: dying in a plane crash is extremely rare, but people often overestimate the probability of it occurring because plane crashes tend to be highly memorable and publicized.
This is super interesting
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Much of the research in social cognition has demonstrated that humans are adept at distilling large amounts of information into smaller, more usable chunks
This reminds me of something that I recently learned in my AP Psychology class. It is a method to help memory called "chunking" where you take large pieces of information and separate them into smaller "chunks" to help remember.
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