PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Heredity, Chameleon, Spreading Activation

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Dylan Selterman

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*another example is media portrayal of different cultural phenomena (lawyers in nj claimed facebook was the cause of 1 out of 5 of their divorce cases) Power of the situation: in social psychology it"s something that"s studied extensively since it has a huge influence on our daily lives. E. g. setting, social norms and often, situations matter more than personality traits. Cultural context: this is important to social psychology to know what pieces play a role in our lives like religion, temperature, traditions, laws, etc. But that doesn"t mean that we can go around with our culture and apply it to other places. Ex. maps turning it upside down is a perfectly legitimate way to look at the world. North does not have to be up on a map. Our cultural context: time period in history, geography, language, government/legality and traditions . Our society is weird w: western e: educated i: industrialized r: rich.