PSYCH 280- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 18 pages long!)
6 Oct 2017
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Social psychology: the scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in social context. Chapter 1: each part of this definition needs to be examined closely, scientific study, social psychology relies on scientific method, systematic observation, description, measurement (cid:862)social psychologists are scientists. We gather knowledge and information systematically using scientific methods. These methods include systematic observation, description, and measurement. As you will learn in this class, social psychology has a very diverse set of topics including stereotyping, the self, attitudes, aggression, and many more. In social psychology we tend to emphasize the social nature of individuals. Accordingly, we are primarily interested in studying individual behavior in a social context. We (cid:373)ight e(cid:448)e(cid:374) imply the other people are going to be around or watching you. And these different descriptions of framing of an event can have important effe(cid:272)ts o(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals. (cid:863)
