5 Questions
What is the weekend effect?
People are happier on the weekend than during the week.
What percentage of subjects didn't say the wrong answer on average in the Solomon Asch experiment?
24%
What is the Misattribution Effect?
The tendency for people to misattribute their emotions to external causes
What is the purpose of psychology?
To understand how people think and behave
What is an example of an experiment that challenges people's assumptions?
The Solomon Asch Experiment
Study Notes
- Psychology studies behavior, including how it affects people's emotions and thoughts.
- One example of a study psychologists have conducted is the weekend effect, which found that people are happier on the weekend than during the week.
- Some of the coolest experiments have been when people have thought things to be obvious but they've turned out not to be.
- One example of this is the Solomon Asch experiment, in which social psychologists found that only 24% of subjects didn't say the wrong answer on average when asked a simple question about lines on cards.
- Psychology is useful because it can help us understand how people think and behave, even in cases where what we think is obvious is not actually true.
- again, because it's true that we have ideas of how things work and our brains work. We don't actually have any idea a lot of the time. The Misattribution Effect
Test your knowledge of psychology and behavioral studies with this quiz. Explore topics such as the weekend effect, Solomon Asch experiment, and the misattribution effect. Understand how psychology helps us uncover the hidden truths behind human behavior and emotions.
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