PSY220H1 Lecture 1: Introduction to Social Psychology
10 Jan 2019
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Social psychology: experimental study of social behavior, behavior in which the responses either serve as social stimuli or are evoked by social stimuli. Kurt lewin: another founder of social psychology, life space of an individual. Influenced by gestalt psychologists - whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Behaviour is a function of the person and their environment: research during and after wwii. Reciprocal determinism: reciprocal feedback loop between the person, their behavior and the environment (person-situation interaction) "the person, the environment, and behavior exist in an interlocking relationship characterized by bidirectional causality. " The history of social psychology (& importance of using primary sources: triplett (1898) as one of the first social psychological experiments. Overarching themes: social influence, construction of reality, cognitive misers. Social influence: influences that people have upon the beliefs, feelings, behavior of others. People construct their own reality: shaped by both cognitive processes (the ways our minds work) and by social processes (influence from others)
