Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Order Of The Solar Temple, Social Cognition, Procedural Justice

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

Document Summary

The scienti c study of the behavior and the mind. Social psychology: the scienti c study of the way in which people"s thoughts, feelings and behaviors are in uenced by the real or imagined presence of other people. Not necessarily need to have other people physically presence. People can in uence our behavior without actively trying to. How people think, feel and relate to other people. Curiosity --> desire to understand others, natural to desire to understand others and themselves. Theories and ideas are based on empirical evidence (things we can observe) Researches design studies to systematically test interesting questions. Most important to understand individuals" construal of social environment. Less concerned with understanding the objective properties of the social environment itself. Doesn"t matter what"s happening in reality but how we perceive it. Construal: the way in which people perceive, comprehend and interpret the social world --> perspective about what"s going on.