PSYC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kurt Lewin, Gestalt Psychology, Construals
23 May 2020
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Social psychology: scientific study of the way in which people"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people. People assume that someone else will help, so chance of helping is inversely related to number of people present. It"s not about personality, its about the situation (social influence) Document the behaviors that follow from these objective properties. Behaviorism: a school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behavior, one need consider only reinforcing effects of environment. Every decision is based on cumulative effects of rewards/punishments life= summation of + and - situations. Construal: how individual perceives, comprehends, and interprets the world around them, particularly the actions of others towards themselves. Subjectivity of a social situation= focus on the construals. Gestalt psychology: a school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears in people"s minds (the gestalt or whole/aggregate) rather than the objective, physical attributes of the object.
