PSYCH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Cognition, Heredity, Gordon Allport
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Social psychology: according to gordon allport, scientific attempt to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual, or imagined presence of others . Four core values: accuracy, objectivity, skepticism, open-mindedness. Sociology: general laws and theories about societies, not individuals. Personality: characteristics that make individuals unique and different. Social: what makes us susceptible to opinions of others. Goals of research: description, causal analysis, theory building, application. Planning fallacy: strong tendency to believe that projects will take less time than they actually do, or alternatively, that we an accomplish more in a given period than is really true. We must accept that others have a strong influence on our personal behavior. Social cognition: to think long and hard about other people-what they"re like, why they do what they do, how they might react to our behavior, and so on. One of the most important areas of research in the field.
