PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes -Selective Perception, Social Capital, Counterfactual Thinking
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Uses scientific methods to understand and explain how the thought, feeling and behaviour of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of other human beings. Social psychology has a focus on thought, behaviour, and feeling. Presence of other human beings presence of others page-gould altered definition so that others opens definition to broader view of social processings that includes animals. Others do not need to be directly in front of you to influence you. Any social phenomenon can be focused on through these abcs. Behaviour: verbal and nonverbal action, observable things, behaviour is the only thing that others know about us because they are unable to see inside your mind. Cognition: thought, sensation, perception, processing, and memory. Video: human exchanger teaches monkey a task. Inequity eventually subject stops participating because they notice that the task is not fair. Late 1800s: subfield of philosophy, william james.
