PSY 105 Final: PSY105 EXAM NOTES.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: Kristin Vickers

Document Summary

Social psychology: seeks to understand, explain, and predict how people"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. The presence of others, and how it influences us. Implied presence of others, when thinking about someone that is not there presently. It is not so much the kind of person a man is, as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he. Part of what we do is not makes us, us it"s the situation we are in. Instead of being true to your values, the situation can change what we do profoundly. will act. (milgram, 2004) Culture: a set of beliefs, values, and attitudes shared by most members of that community. Ex: pets in north america are common, but in south america it"s not. A program of shared rules that govern the behaviour of members of a community. A way a person identifies himself or herself.