PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fundamental Attribution Error, Realistic Conflict Theory, Social Cognition
2 Apr 2016
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Chapter outline: social cogniion: aitudes, social cogniion: atribuions, social forces, social relaions, social funcioning: what happens in the brain, disorders of social funcioning: when things go wrong. Social psychology seeks to understand, explain, and predict how people"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are inluenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. It is not so much the kind of person a man is, as the kind of situaion in which he inds himself that determines how he will act (milgram, 2004) Following the vancouver canucks" loss to the boston bruins on june 15, 2011, rioters moved through downtown vancouver smashing windows and looing stores. Many vancouverites went downtown the morning ater the riot to help clean up. Social cogniion how people perceive, interpret, and categorize their own and others" social behaviour. Aitudes relaively stable and enduring evaluaions of things and people. The afecive component how we feel toward the object. The behavioural component how we behave toward the object.
