Psychology 2070A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Flawlessly, Elaboration Likelihood Model, Buddy System

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

Document Summary

1: social psychology a field dedicated to understanding the causes & consequences of social interactions between individuals & groups. 2. influenced by other people thoughts, feelings & behaviours interested in how other people affect every aspect of individual"s lives individual perspective take the perspective of individuals in a social setting. 3: social construal"s how individuals personally interpret a social situation, scientific study, how other people affect us, other people affect how we interpret events. Ex. bystander intervention individuals fail to intervene b/c they rely on other people to interpret the event: other people affect how we feel about ourselves. Social comparison comparing ourselves to other people to make judgments about the self. The presence of other people can elicit very different behaviour than would have occurred if individuals were alone. Hindsight bias tendency to think that a known outcome was obvious. Social psychology"s early history: earliest publication 1898 experiment addressed whether the presence of an audience improves individual"s performances.