PSY 1102 Midterm: Revision 8

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Ersin Asliturk

Document Summary

How we think in relaion to other people. How other people inluence not only our thinking but our acions (e. g. conformity, obedience, group behavior ) How we treat each other, relate to each other (e. g. prejudice, atracion, aggression, altruism, conlict & peacemaking ) Sample social psychology quesion: why might students speak up in class, or hesitate to speak? . To answer this, we can study emoions, cogniions, moivaions, reinforcers, and . Personality psychologists could study the traits that might make one person more likely than another to speak. Social psychologists might examine aspects of the classroom situaion that would inluence any student"s decision on speaking. Atribuion: a conclusion about the cause of an observed behavior/event. Atribuion theory: we explain others" behavior with two types of atribuions. Situaional atribuion (factors outside the person doing the acion, such as peer pressure) Disposiional atribuion (the person"s stable, enduring traits, personality, ability, emoions)