PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gordon Allport, Cognitive Dissonance, Personality Psychology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2110
• Professor: M L Laliberte

Document Summary

Psy2110 ~ social psychology (session #2: what is social psychology & Focuses on interaction between individual and the environment: they focus on regular people = the people who are well-adjusted, not just on people with mental illnesses. Most of the research is trying to understand what the average person would do in the given situation: broad themes in social psychology, how individuals" thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by other people . Leadership) and inter-group (dynamic of interactions between group, ex. What research shows, is that the smaller the rewards are, the more people will value and enjoy the activity. Cognitive dissonance: human beings are the only animals who have a sense of self, false. Some primates have a sense of self (sense of social identity), such as dolphins: some facial expressions are universal used and understood by people all over the world, true.