PSYC 381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wide Area Network, High Tech, Kurt Lewin
9 Sep 2020
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The scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in a social context: provide two questions from your daily life that social psychologists are trying to answer. Social psychologists tend to study and focus on the behaviors and attitude of an individual"s in a group or social context, even in group studies. Example: studying one"s attitudes towards a particular group of people or how one"s views are influenced by their peers or their mood. Sometimes social psychologists examine non-social factors that affect people"s thoughts, emotions, motives, and actions. Social psychology differs from sociology in terms of focusing on individuals rather than groups. Clinical psychologists tend to treat people with psychological disorders or troubles. Whereas social psychologists may seek to understand how individuals, behave, think, and influence each other (socially). Similarities, both may cross fields in "how people cope with anxiety, emotion, or pressure in social situations. "
