PYB202 Lecture Notes - Demand Characteristics, Metatheory, Group Dynamics

• School: QUT
• Department: Psychology and Counselling
• Course: PYB202
• Professor: Unknown

Document Summary

The scientific investigation of how the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others. Social psychology is a science that is concerned with the impact of the group on the individual and vice versa. It has similarities with a number of other disciplines within psychology, most notably sociology. The following is a brief run-down of ways that social psychology is different or similar to other disciplines: Sociolinguistics languages communication: the overlap here could be the interest in the way we speak to each other and communicate in group situations as opposed to individual situations. Individual psychology: essentially, individual psychology is in many ways opposite to social psychology because it focuses on the individual outside of a group context, whereas social psychology is concerned with the individual and their relation to the group.