PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Personality Psychology, Dhow, Random Assignment
29 Apr 2019
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The people that you knew will dominate your thought process and the interactions. Maybe remember how you were embarrassed at any incident or something prominent (an event) We forge our individual identities not by ourselves. Example, we work together, we play together, we hurt each other we help. We don"t fall in these situations by accident. Parties, dates commitments, life long commitments , watch other people and talk about them. Interacting with peers from all around the world. Abc: a ect, behaviour, cognition in social context. We can address it in a lot of ways but distinct because it is a science. Systematic observation ,decriotion and precise meausrmenet to study humans and their relationships. It is a very broad and diverse eld. Talk about slef, groups, social judgement, etc. Includes peoples private, unconscious/non conscious behaves and attitudes. The is how social psychology di ers from economics and business and etc. Goal for social psychologist: understand universal principals .
