PSY 221 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Studies, Behaviorism, Fundamental Attribution Error
13 May 2019
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Will not need to know names and dates on exams. The scientific study of how people come to understand individuals, groups, and themselves as social entities. Its processes influence how we perceive, judge, remember, and behave towards people. These processes shape and are shaped by our social expectations, social roles, social goals, and social interactions. How social psychology differs from the rest of psychology. Social studies environment as well as the mind. Social studies functional as well as dysfunctional behavior. Social studies what makes people similar to each other, not what makes them different. How social psychology differs from other disciplines. Unit of analysis in social is the individual, not the society. Social is interested in theory and general understanding, not specific applications. 17% are employed to conduct social psychology in the public (government) or private (business) sectors. Individual vs. group effort in rope pull. In u. s. , behaviorism is dominant, but social psychologists fight simple.
