PSYC-241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operationalization, Psych, Ostracism
2 May 2019
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Principles of social psychology: person vs the situation. Social psychological questions involve one or more of: effect: how you feel, behaviour: actions, cognition: thoughts. E. g) effect perspective of aggression: behaviour: acting to harm someone, cognitive: aggressive and hostile thinking, effect: often treated as unimportant. Some say fact is more "important" than feelings. Affect can be divided: mood: long term, background feelings, emotion: brief, intense, and specific feeling state. E. g) jealous of something, not for no reason: moods are general and broad. Long term moods want some type of change to get out of it: emotions can provide specific behaviour. Responding right away: behaviour: how we interact with others. Exchange of ideas, emotions, goods, services: social rewards: good byproducts of exchange, humans are egotistical and have self interest. Evolved to care about what others think: social cognition: process information and make sense of the world. Selective about taking in information: schemas: web of interconnected knowledge about something, attitudes: evaluation of something.
