PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Cognition, Social Neuroscience

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Mark Baldwin

Document Summary

From your text: the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviours of individuals in social situations . The definition does not cover anything but it is a pretty good one. Human psychology is similar in many ways to that of other animals. Those kinds of themes and those theories influence social psychology. Social psychology draws from various sources, such as: Social neuroscience- the study of the brain in the context of social psychology. Social psychologists, you could boil down 2 major themes of the course and the field: Humans actually do not think exactly the same as mice and rats and elephants. We have language, spend a lot of time thinking in terms of language and other symbols, we are able to do things mentally that other animals cannot to the same extent. Humans- a lot of time spent on symbolic thought, and describing thought processes and so forth.