PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Confirmation Bias

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 260
• Professor: Lisa Droogendyk

Document Summary

Studies the thoughts, feelings, and behaviour of individuals. What makes people act as they do in social contacts. Friendship, romantic attraction, emotions, helping others, hurting others, conformity, rebellion, stereotyping, prejudice. Social psychology: what exactly triggers that behaviour and what social factors may cause that. Unusual patterns of behaviour, often connected with mental disorders. Social psychologists are more interested in the average/middle of bell. People in the group would respond (they are opposites) Themes: power of the situation: the situation has a powerful impact on behaviour (or social. How people behave is often best explained by the social situation. Unappreciated because people do not realize the extent to which the situation effects them. Social psychologists check social contexts first to study behaviour. Importance of subjective (different people interpret different things in different ways) construal (viewpoint): the way people personally interpret a situation often influences them more than the actual situation (the reality). What"s going on in your head versus the situation.