PSYC 2120 Lecture 1: Soc Psyc

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2120
• Professor: Ward Struthers

Document Summary

Married couples have less heart disease and live longer (alviar & marshall, 2014; myers, Rejection leads to physical and social pain (macdonald & leary, 2005) When we meet new people we cast judgement on appearance, race, religion, etc. (forming impressions based on stereotypes and inferences) Inferences = forming conclusions using limited data, never fully accurate. Social psychology is the study of how individuals think about, relate to, and influence one another based on the actual, imagined, and implied presence of older individuals. Lewin, k. (kurt) parent of social psychology, act on the perceived, rather than the actual. Never an objective truth, more so how do you think about it? or how do you feel about it? . Changes in focus (instinct, attitude, consistency, attributions, social cognition, automatic processing, neuro) Changes in the issues (prejudice, aggression, riots, crime, multiculturalism, morality, religion) Changes in participants (gender, m to f, general to college students)