SOCY 273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wilhelm Wundt, Behaviorism, Critical Psychology

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 273
• Professor: Robyn Sattlink

Document Summary

Social psychology: is the scientific study of the way people think, feel, and behave. Focuses greatly on the individual even tough it is happening in a society. Explain things in terms of universal psychological process that applies to all individuals. Wilhelm maximillian wundt: establishes social psychology as a discipline, describes as initiating modern society to applying something to combine concerns from physiology to check mental processes. The way in which perception is meaningfully organized. Experiencing something as a whole is different from experiencing something as the sum of parts. We perceive things like filling in the blank of objects. Social psychology can change in order to see perspectives as individual. Neutral stimuli can trigger a target response behaviour if repeadetly presented with a stimuli that brought about response behaviour. Pavlov"s dogs: food + bell = salivates, after many times bell = salivates. Little albert: conditioned to fear white rabbits, https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=hzpxvb0w3hc. Behaviour as a sign inner reality.