Social Psych Exam 1
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- What is Social Psychology??
- The scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in regard to other people and how individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by other people
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Social Psychology
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Personality pscyhology -
social psychology: what aspects of social situation cause individual to do x?
personality psychology: what charac personality traits cause individual to do x? -
Social psychology
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Clinical psychology -
what is typical or normative social behavior? what does average person do in particular situation
clinical psychology: what is abnormal behavior? what does a person with a psych disorder do in a particular situation? -
Social psychology
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Cognitive psychology -
social: what impact does social situation have on and individuals thought processes? how do people think about other people?
Cognitive: what impact do many different variables have on an individuals thought processes? how do people think about anything? -
social psychology
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sociology -
social: what aspects of the social situation cause the individual to do x? triest to study the subjective social situation- how does individual construe what is happening?
Sociology: what aspects of the society or culture cause groups or societies to do x? tries to determine the objective social situation - construals
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-the ways in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world.
-unique to every individual - intra-individual variability
- within a single person (intra-mural sports). same person in many different situations
- inter-individual variability
- between and among different persons (inter-national affairs)
- situational causes
- something about the social or environmental context- something external to the person
- dispositional causes
- something about the person's characteristics- something internal to the person
- what makes social psychology unique?
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-emphasis is on situational causes
-factors in the social situation that influence behavior (and thoughts and feelings) - interactionist perspective
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-interaction of the particular situation and the disposition of the individual
-kurt lewin - 5 causes
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-the action and characteristics of other persons
-cognitive processes (thoughts)
-environmental variables: impact of the physical world
-cultural context
-biological factors - what is a variable?
- anything that can vary in quantity or quality, so that it can be measured