PSYC203 Jared's Lectures Flashcards
Social Beliefs, Judgements, Moral Judgement, and Decision Making (22 cards)
What makes moral judgements unique? (3 things)
- Personal actions
- Imprudent actions
- Social conventions
Moral convictions in children (Weston, 1980)
Children’s moral convictions are strong even when an action is allowed
- shown by the “would this still be moral if Jesus said so”
What is the moral objectivist approach to moral judgements?
The idea that if 2 people disagree, only 1 can be correct
What is the moral relativist approach to moral judgements?
The idea that if 2 people disagree, both can be correct
What did Wainryb (2004) say about children’s attitudes to moral judgements?
Children become more relativist with age
What did Goodwin(2012) say about adult’s attitudes to moral judgements?
Adults tend to think more in an objectivist way
What is Shweder’s CAD theory?
harm -> fairness -> loyalty -> authority -> purity
What is moral monism?
The belief that there is only 1 fundamental moral standard
What are the 4 types of harm?
- Intentional
- Accidental
- Attempted
- Benign
What is intention weighted in?
Weighted highly in wrongness judgements (or failed attempts)
What are causes and outcomes important for?
attributing blame and guilt
What does Uhlmann (2015) suggest about intentions?
Intentions inform character
Young (2011) about intentional harm
participants rated intentional harm as worst
What is causal deviance?
When the intention and outcome are present, but not linked
What is an Exemplar (Smith, 1992)
concrete instance of a category
What is a prototype?
a cognitive representation of a category based on collections that share family resemblance
What are associative networks (Wyer, 1994)
involve representational content connected by learnt associative links
What are Heuristics?
mental short-cuts and snap judgements that are fast, efficient, error-prone but good enough
What does Crocker (1984) suggest about schema stability?
Suggests that schemas are highly stable and resistant to change
What are the 3 models of schema change outlined by Rothbart (1981)?
- Book-keeping
- Conversion
- Subtyping
What are the 3 instances when we don’t use schemas?
- when there is a cost to being wrong
- when there is no cost to being indecisive and taking time
- individual differences in awareness that stereotypes may lead to prejudice
What are the 3 types of heuristic seen in Myers et al (2010)
- availability heuristic
- representative heuristic
- anchoring/ adjustment
