KLA210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Evolutionary Psychology, Folk Psychology, Cyberpsychology
Social Psychology week 1: introduction
Allport 1935: Godfather of Social psychology
- Thinking about content in a way that applies scientific content
- “Real or imagined presence of others”
- Thoughts, feeling, behaviour (the usual what we deal with) but with the
component of others
- Looking at how individuals behave in particular way (not groups)
Influences of other scientific fields:
- Cognitive psychology: social cognition
oCognitive dissonance
oProverbs are not helpful: applying scientific method to this
- Individual psychology
- Anthropology: norms between different cultures
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociology (norms)
Triplett (1898): Social facilitation
- Competition increases performance
- Interested in cycling so studied performance through reeling
- More people positively stimulated than those adversely effected or little
effected
- 2005 ANOVA run on data: Strube found that there was no difference in alone
and competition performances
- An example of social psychology that no one checked or changed results:
believe long standing or credible sources
oImportance of critical thinking
Levels of explanation:
- Reducing phenomenon: Triplett; cycling studied through reeling
- If you cant see the whole, you break down things, then the information
becomes useless
oNeed to have a good theory that helps us put htings back together to
make sense
- Reductionism:
oCornerstone of modern science
oTake a problem and break it down
oTheory must be of high quality to put back together accurately
oSocial psychology studies at different levels of reduction
oEach theory focuses at its own level of reduction
oCoherent explanation
oGroups – interpersonal processes – intrapersonal cognitive
mechanisms – neuron interacting – cell biology – transmitters –
molecule structure – physics
oSociology – psychology – biology – chemistry – physics
oSocial psychology apply a reductionist view on phenomenon: only
work at their level of reductionalist
oLevels of explanation:
Intrapersonal: how and why peple react to others in certain
ways
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Document Summary
Thinking about content in a way that applies scientific content. Thoughts, feeling, behaviour (the usual what we deal with) but with the. Real or imagined presence of others component of others. Looking at how individuals behave in particular way (not groups) Cognitive psychology: social cognition: cognitive dissonance, proverbs are not helpful: applying scientific method to this. More people positively stimulated than those adversely effected or little. Interested in cycling so studied performance through reeling effected. 2005 anova run on data: strube found that there was no difference in alone and competition performances. An example of social psychology that no one checked or changed results: believe long standing or credible sources: importance of critical thinking. Reducing phenomenon: triplett; cycling studied through reeling. If you cant see the whole, you break down things, then the information becomes useless: need to have a good theory that helps us put htings back together to make sense.
