PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Kurt Lewin, Personality Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology
15 Sep 2018
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E. g. children have more problems from higher class. E. g. bronze winner is happier than silver winner. We assume other students know the material when we have a question in lecture, so we are afraid to ask questions. How we see ourselves changes with the changes in our environment. How we think about people and the social world. The intention cannot accurately predict the actual behaviour. If sex was planned, condom use increases. Wearing bracelet increased condom use even under effect of alcohol. How we think, feel, and act in the social world. How our attitudes and behaviour shape the social world. Too simple because giving rewards does not always lead to increased frequency of that behaviour. Kurt lewin is the founder of social psych and trained in gestalt psych. Wisdom / knowledge, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, transcendence. People often have hindsight bias to concepts in social psych. Buying and selling sex (explain sexual behaviour using econ)
