PSY BEH 104S Lecture Notes - Parental Investment, Glossary Of Riemannian And Metric Geometry, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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Chapter 1: An Invitation to Social Psychology
Characterizing Social Psychology:
• Social psychology: scientific study of the feelings, thoughts and behaviors of individuals
in social situations
• Social psychologists test the intuitions by studies and experiments = cause of behavior
in social situations
Explaining Behavior:
• People exert influence over one another and the ways people respond to the influence
of attempts of various kinds
• HOW do people make sense of their world?
- Decide what and whom to believe
- Make inferences about motives, personalities and abilities of others
- Reach conclusions of events
• Social psychology influences government polices
Comparing Social Psychology with Related Disciplines:
- Personality psychology focuses and emphasizes the individual differences in
behavior rather than the social situation.
- Persoality psyhology tries fid osistet patter i perso’s ehaior i situatios
- Social Psychology = the study of how people perceive, think and remember aspects
of the world
- Usually soial topis soial ehaior, pereptios of others
- Sociology = study of behavior of people in the aggregate
- Study institutions, subgroups, bureaucracies, changes in the demographic
characteristics of populations
The Power of the Situation
• Kurt Lewin – founder of social psychology, Jewish professor at Iowa and then MIT:
believed that the behavior of people, like the behavior of objects is always a function of
the field of forces in which they find themselves
• With PEOPLE: forces are psychological and physical – the perso’s o attriutes
interact with the situation to produce resulting behavior
• The main situational influences on our behavior, influences that we often misjudge or
fail to see together are the mere presence of other people.
The Fundamental Attribution Error
• Internal factors = dispositions: beliefs, values, personality traits, and abilities that guide
behavior
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