PSY10004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Group Dynamics, Social Cognition, Implicit-Association Test

• School: Swinburne, SUT
• Department: PSY
• Course: PSY10004
• Professor: John Schwartz

Document Summary

Social psychology is the scienti c investigation of how our thoughts, feelings, and behaviour are in uenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. The social component of social psychology refers to the role of others and their in uences on our thoughts, feelings and behaviour, including group behaviour, relationships, and the presence of others. Classic topics studied in social psych: person perception and cognition, the self, attitudes, prejudice/racism/authoritarianism, social in uence/conformity, interpersonal attraction, personal relationships, group behaviour, gender, helping behaviour, aggression, power. Areas applied: law/legal studies, health, politics, religion, social change, family functioning, culture, violence/war/discrimination, achievement/productivity, organisational behaviour/work, marketing/advertising, sport. Social cognition refers to the processes by which people come to understand themselves, others, social interactions, and relationships. Social condition closely follows developments in cognitive science. Self-concepts or self representations are the sum total of beliefs that people have about themselves eg. i am . Self esteem are made up of our positive and negative self-evaluations.