Social Psychology
Topic 6:
1a). Explain how illusory correlations, hindsight andoverconfidence, self-confirming diagnoses and clinical intuitionversus statistical prediction impact treatment andintervention.
2a). Describe the cognitive processes related to depression,loneliness, anxiety and shyness and health, illness and death andexplain how these cognitive processes impact psychologicaldisorders, treatment and overall health.
3a). Explain the accuracy of eyewitness testimony, itsassociation (or not) with eyewitness confidence, its contaminationby misinformation effects, and ways to increase eyewitness accuracyand educate jurors.
4a). Explain how defendants' attractiveness and similarity tojurors may bias jurors, and how faithfully jurors follow judges'instructions. 4b). Describe how verdicts depend on how theindividual jurors process information.
5a). Identify possible psychological consequences of climatechange. Summarize and explain the gap between scientific and publicunderstandings of climate change.
6a). Explain social psychology's contribution to ourunderstanding of changing materialism: To what extent do money andconsumption buy happiness? 6b). And why do materialism and economicgrowth not bring enduringly greater satisfaction?
