PSYC 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fundamental Attribution Error
9 Apr 2018
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What is social psychology: the scientific study of how our thoughts, feelings and behaviours are shaped by real or imagined presence of others and other environmental cues, differs from related fields like personality, developmental, sociology etc. , Subjective realities can differ depending on construal: ex. , kiss at the end of a date, question how you"re doing. Internal factors affecting thoughts, emotions, behaviour: motivational: desire to feel good about the self (self-enhancement, rose-coloured glasses, cognitive: heuristics (mental shortcuts or rules of thumb, expectations about the social world (stereotypes, scripts) Application of social psychology: use psychological theories to solve social problems, examples: reduction of hostility and prejudice, increase healthy decision, improve relationship.
