PSY220H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-6, 10, 12: Milgram Experiment, Stanley Milgram, Kurt Lewin
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Social psychology the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations. Kurt lewin was the founder of social psychology. Failure to recognize the importance of situation influences and tendency to overemphasize the importance of dispositions on behavior. Human behavior is a function of both the person and the situation. Social psychology forces us to look at another person"s situation to try to understand the. Dispositions internal factors, such as beliefs, values, personality traits, and abilities, that guide a person"s behavior. Channel factors situational circumstances that appear unimportant on the surface but can have great consequences for behavior facilitating it, blocking it, or guiding it in a particular direction. Advertised in a local newspaper for men to participate in a study on learning and memory in exchange for a modest amount of money would be participating in a study about the effects of punishment on learning.
