PSYC 2310 Midterm: Psych 2310 Midterm #1 Review Notes.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

Social psychology: a scientific study of the way in which a person"s thoughts feelings and behaviours are influenced by the real imagined or implied presence of others. Scientific method: a technique for investigating phenomena acquiring new knowledge and or correcting previous knowledge. Social psychologists form an educated guess called a hypothesis. Hypothesis: a testable prediction about the conditions under which an event will occur. Social psychology is a scientific study of the way in which a person"s thoughts feelings and behaviors are influenced by real imagined or implied presence of others. Three distinct but inter-related topics that social psychologists addresss: How we think feel and act in the social world. How our attitudes and behavior shape the social world. (imagined or real) Self-presentation: how people work to convey certain images of themselves to others. How people form impressions and make inferences about other people and events in the social world.