Rational Actor Model
purposeful behavior; looks at rational assumptions and ways we deviate
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Rational Actor Model | purposeful behavior; looks at rational assumptions and ways we deviate |
| B=P+E what does the B stand for | behavior |
| B=P+E what does the P stand for | personal attributes |
| B=P+E what does the E stand for | environmental factors |
| Strong situations | extraordinary circumstances (natural disaster or terrorism) |
| Obedience | form of social influence where one alters their behavior bc authority told them to |
| Conformity | form of social influence where one alters attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors to match social group |
| Geopolitics | genes are related to voting behavior |
| Monozygotic | identical twins |
| Political socialization | social environment and processes that effect attitudes, values, and beliefs |
| Psychobiography | historically relevant theories and their matching psychologist who coined them |
| What is an example of a psychobiography | Freud with his dream analysis and childhood experiences |
| Big 5 Traits | OCEAN openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism |
| Right wing authoritarianism | ignores contradictory ideas, world is dangerous, quick to disprove ideas they don't like |
| Fundamental attribution error | people attribute behavior to others to internal disposition and their own behavior to external forces |
| Authority/respect | concerns related to social order and the obligations of hierarchical relationships such as obedience, respect, and proper role fulfillment |
| Hot cognition | reaction to stimulus is more about emotional influences rather than logic |
| Affective intelligence theory | a dispositional system for routine information or emotional experiences versus a surveillance system for unexpected information |
| Analogical reasoning | humans tend to compare new situations to something apparently similar we experienced in the past |
| What are two possible ways to set up a survey experiment | Through a control group and a treatment group. Control group is the benchmark. Treatment group is testing a variable |
| What is the purpose of a survey experiment | To establish causality and determine efficacy of treatment |
| What are two potential problems with the Rational actor model | One is individual limits which could be misperceptions or bias. Another is fixed preference assumption which could be discounting the future or risk |
| Neuropolitics | the relationship between the brain and politics. fMRI, skin conductance, eye tracking |
| Misperception | individual limitation critique of rational actor model. |
| Banality of evil | People's desire to be good subjects and obey authority is greater than their desire to do good (Milgram experiment) |
| Discounting the future | present bias. prioritization of immediate reward |