SCLoA Outcome Links: Explain the formation of stereotypes and their effect on behaviour/ Explain social learning theory making reference to two relevant studies (perception of socioeconomic status/ learning of emotions)
The sociocultural level of psychology is all about the impact of implicit actions on behaviour. As all psychology students should be, I am very intrigued by this, how we can interpret and act differently without knowing we are being manipulated, knowing or unknowingly. These articles narrow the phenomenon to only nonverbal cues, which I have explored for a while. It shows how things we can often feel or see with our own eyes, a wink, a small nudge, can change the way we act, or how we perceive others.
Here is a short summary for each of these interesting articles. Make sure you read to the end!!!
Socioeconomic Status
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090204121515.htm
A new study in Psychological Science reveals that nonverbal cues can give away a person's socioeconomic status (SES). Volunteers whose parents were from upper SES backgrounds displayed more disengagement-related behaviors compared to participants from lower SES backgrounds. In addition, when a separate group of observers were shown 60 second clips of the videos, they were able to correctly guess the participants' SES background, based on their body language.
Attraction
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150212154627.htm
"We're really bad at detecting if people are flirting with us," Hall said. "We're great at knowing when they're not interested. But the reason we're bad at seeing when they are interested is people show it in such a variety of ways."
Children and Learning
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130624152529.htm
The clues that parents give toddlers about words can make a big difference in how deep their vocabularies are when they enter school, new research shows. By using words to reference objects in the visual environment, parents can help young children learn new words, according to the research.
Trustworthiness
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120911113047.htm
"This is a very exciting result that showcases how social robots can be used to gain important insights about human behavior," said Cynthia Breazeal of MIT's Media Lab. "This also has fascinating implications for the design of future robots that interact and work alongside people as partners." Accordingly, these findings hold important insights not only for security and financial endeavors and for the evolving design of robots and computer-based agents. The subconscious mind is ready to see these entities as social beings.
The most interesting one above I believe is the robot article. It shows that artificial intelligence, long believed to have no sense of emotion, can gradually understand through big data. By collecting millions of facial expressions and developing "human" qualities, I don't see where AI can ever stop improving. Soon, AI will just be a place where humans can place their minds, like the movie Chappy! This scientific phenomenon could be linked to the idea of social learning, where through exposure to a society and its culture, one is able to act like they're part of the group. The only difference is, the robot is not a human, they do not need to take months, years, or decades to adapt to a culture! A robot could take in all the information and analyze it, then in the end, use that data to understand how to behave, becoming human. The implications of this could be beneficial or devastating. If humans develop enough knowledge in the field of psychology to know how to "produce" or "inject" emotions into robots, they could be our slaves, or in the end, they could take over our world...
The sociocultural level of psychology is all about the impact of implicit actions on behaviour. As all psychology students should be, I am very intrigued by this, how we can interpret and act differently without knowing we are being manipulated, knowing or unknowingly. These articles narrow the phenomenon to only nonverbal cues, which I have explored for a while. It shows how things we can often feel or see with our own eyes, a wink, a small nudge, can change the way we act, or how we perceive others.
Here is a short summary for each of these interesting articles. Make sure you read to the end!!!
Socioeconomic Status
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090204121515.htm
A new study in Psychological Science reveals that nonverbal cues can give away a person's socioeconomic status (SES). Volunteers whose parents were from upper SES backgrounds displayed more disengagement-related behaviors compared to participants from lower SES backgrounds. In addition, when a separate group of observers were shown 60 second clips of the videos, they were able to correctly guess the participants' SES background, based on their body language.
Attraction
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150212154627.htm
"We're really bad at detecting if people are flirting with us," Hall said. "We're great at knowing when they're not interested. But the reason we're bad at seeing when they are interested is people show it in such a variety of ways."
Children and Learning
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130624152529.htm
The clues that parents give toddlers about words can make a big difference in how deep their vocabularies are when they enter school, new research shows. By using words to reference objects in the visual environment, parents can help young children learn new words, according to the research.
Trustworthiness
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120911113047.htm
"This is a very exciting result that showcases how social robots can be used to gain important insights about human behavior," said Cynthia Breazeal of MIT's Media Lab. "This also has fascinating implications for the design of future robots that interact and work alongside people as partners." Accordingly, these findings hold important insights not only for security and financial endeavors and for the evolving design of robots and computer-based agents. The subconscious mind is ready to see these entities as social beings.
The most interesting one above I believe is the robot article. It shows that artificial intelligence, long believed to have no sense of emotion, can gradually understand through big data. By collecting millions of facial expressions and developing "human" qualities, I don't see where AI can ever stop improving. Soon, AI will just be a place where humans can place their minds, like the movie Chappy! This scientific phenomenon could be linked to the idea of social learning, where through exposure to a society and its culture, one is able to act like they're part of the group. The only difference is, the robot is not a human, they do not need to take months, years, or decades to adapt to a culture! A robot could take in all the information and analyze it, then in the end, use that data to understand how to behave, becoming human. The implications of this could be beneficial or devastating. If humans develop enough knowledge in the field of psychology to know how to "produce" or "inject" emotions into robots, they could be our slaves, or in the end, they could take over our world...