PSY220H1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Norm (Social), Trust Law, Social Psychology
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Social psychology: the scientific study of the effects of social and cognitive processes on the way individuals perceive, influence, and relate to others. (other two definitions of slides) Social influence: (the influence that people have upon the beliefs, feelings, and behaviour of others) is pervasive. People construct their own reality (shaped by both cognitive processes (the ways our mind work) and by social processes (influence from others) ). How people can experience the same sensory input and perceive it very differently. (princeton vs dartmouth football game example) Kurt lewin the founding father of social psychology. He trained as a gestalt psychologists (the whole is greater than the sum of its parts). He thought that the person is effected by the. Psychological makeup and environment and the outside world. He thought that than an individual"s behaviour is a function of both the person and his/her/their environment.
