PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Stanley Milgram, Social Cognition
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Social psychology seeks to understand, explain, and predict how we feel about, think about, and behave toward the other people around us and how those people influence our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Social situation : the people with whom we are interacting with. Social cognition : the part of human thinking that helps us understand and predict the behavior of ourselves and others. Attitudes : our enduring evaluations of people or things. Social norms : the accepted beliefs about what we do or what we should do in particular social situations. It"s not so much the kind of person (someone) is, as the kind of situation that determines how [they] will act. (stanley milgram) Someone will change their vote on an important decision to fit in with people. Altruism - self-sacrificing behaviors carried out for the benefit of others (terry fox) Reciprocity norm (if i help someone, i can expect them to help me back)
