PSYC 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: News Feed, Cherry Picking, Experimental Psychology
25 Sep 2017
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Psyc 2100 lecture 1 social context in psychology part 1. Social identity formation and perception: who we are and who they are, where do we come from, obsessed with being an individual, ex. Individual identity is a social identity we are comparing ourselves to other people to identify how we are different: contrast to collectivist society, tend to be more fixed on relationship identity, ex. Group project: we can become much better people, we can share more if we highlight that group identity, problem: what if they aren"t our people, ex. What"s happening in the united states: controlled responses: taking a decision/control of yourself and the situation. Putting the brakes on and trying to think of the environment you see around you: automatic responses: acting on things that bubble to your consciousness right away, ex. North american (experimental)psychology was once focused on the individual, i. e. , everyman is an island .
