PSYCH 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kurt Lewin
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Distributes differences in participants evenly across conditions. Statistically unlikely to have pre-existing differences in different conditions. Culture - many ways to be different. Role of construal - interpretations and inference about the stimuli or situations we confront. Forget construal and you may radically misunderstand people"s affect, behavior, and cognition. How we perceive that person in terms of our learning history. Together, these may make our interpretations different from somebody else"s. Schemas - generalized knowledge about the physical and social world and how to behave in particular situations and with different kinds of people. How you order at a fancy restaurant v. at mcdonald"s. Self concept is at the center of our understanding of the social world. Private, inner self - how we truly see ourselves. Public, outer self - how we want others to see us. Affect - how do we evaluate ourselves, self esteem. Behavior - how do we regulate our actions.
