PSY BEH 104S Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Proof, Normative Social Influence, External Validity
14 Dec 2016
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Study of how people relate to one another in social groups. Why people think, act, feel the way they do in social situations. Uses scientific methods to understand human social behavior. Interested in everyday behavior we are all familiar with: there are still a lot of abnormal events. Interested in individual behavior: sociology takes a more macro approach. Social psychology is interested in the columns i. e. , how situations lead people to respond similarly to one another. Interested in how the same people respond differently to different situations. Four themes to keep in mind: importance of construal, culture, natural selection, and people. Subjective vs objective situations: the phenomenological assumption. If people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences. How that stimulus leads to a response or what kind of response a stimulus triggers. You need to understand how that: person"s subjective is important in how they act person construes it.
