PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Fallacy, Social Neuroscience, Social Representation
3 Apr 2016
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Behaviour is a function of the person and situation. kurt lewin. Don"t need to know names and dates. Need to know the kind of studies conducted (conceptual indings, what do they mean/why they"re signiicant) research indings that support perspectives. Social psychology is a science that studies the inluences of our situations with special attention to how we view and afect one another. We construct our social reality: we explain people"s behaviour, usually with enough speed and accuracy to suit our daily needs, when behaviour is consistent and distinctive = personality. Our social intuitions are often powerful but sometimes. Perilous: intuitions shape fears, impressions and relationships, thinking occurs in dual processing area of mind; conscious and deliberate and unconscious and automatic. Social influences shape our behaviour: we adapt to our social context, our behaviour is shaped by external forces, example: israelis and americans overwhelmingly favored the waging war on iraq in 2003.
