SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Method, Social Influence

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Paul Glavin

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Email etiquette: include course code 1z03 in the subject header. The systematic study of the nature and causes of human social behavior (delamater) Socialization and the social origins of the self. The social basis to perception and cognition. Sociology is the scientific study of the development structure and functioning of human society: sociological social psychologists are interested in the relationship between individuals and groups and broader social structures. Psychology is the scientific study of the individual and of individual behaviour: psychological social psychologists re concerned with individual behavior and social stimuli. Social psychologists examine human behavior and the social world by following a scientific method. They make systematic observations of behaviour and formulate theories that are subject to testing. Science: a systematic enterprise that build and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe: the scientific method versus .