PSYB10H3 Lecture 1: DEFINITIONS-FOR-PSYB10-MIDTERM-EXAM
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Social psychology: the scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in a social context. Interactionist perspective: an emphasis on how both an individual"s personality and environmental characteristics influence behaviour. Social cognition: the study of how people perceive, remember, and interpret information about themselves and others. Social neuroscience: the study of the relationship between neural and social processes. Behavioural genetics: a subfield of the relationship that examines the role of genetic factors in behaviour. Evolutionary psychology: a subfield of psychology that uses the principles of evolution to understand human social behaviour. Culture: a system of enduring meanings, beliefs, values, assumptions, institutions, and practices shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. Cross-cultural research: research designed to compare and contrast people of different cultures. Multicultural research: research designed to examine racial and ethnic groups within cultures. Hypothesis: a testable prediction about the conditions under which an event will occur.
