PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Need, Dependent And Independent Variables, Personality Psychology

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO241
• Professor: Matthew Russell

Document Summary

Social psychology study of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations. Personality psychology study of individual differences in behavior. Cognitive psychology study of how people think about, perceive, and remember. Sociology study of behavior of people in a society. Lewin"s field theory considered the founder of social psychology. B = f(p x s) behavior is a product of personality and situation. Strong situations dominate person, strong traits dominate weaker situations. Social psychology themes: power of the situation - behaviors can change depending on the situation. Nazi germany nobody stood up b/c situation was too strong: role of construal people often think or perceive the same stimulus in different ways. People involved in a car accident blame the other party: people follow intuitions people use mental shortcuts to make judgements. Ki(cid:374)(cid:374)(cid:455) (cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:449)eari(cid:374)g glasses = (cid:374)erd, (cid:271)ut he(cid:859)s a(cid:272)tuall(cid:455) a(cid:374) athlete: attitudes and dispositions matter people(cid:859)s i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual differe(cid:374)(cid:272)es affe(cid:272)t out(cid:272)o(cid:373)es.