PSYC 1020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Loafing, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Attachment In Adults
5 Apr 2016
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Social psychology: the study of how thoughts, feelings, percepions, behaviours are inluenced by interacions and transacions between people. Real social context: behaviour when others are actually around. Imagined: when you imagine how others will react. Symbolic: you are alone, yet create token" representaion of others, pictures of your family; the volleyball in castaway. No such thing as a human in isolaion. How do we construct our social reality: social aciviies cannot be observed in an objecive, unbiased fashion. Selecive processing: we bring meaning to what we see. Process alters what we perceive: diferent percepion of the same event from diferent perspecives. Atribuions: inferences drawn about the causes of events, other"s behaviour, own behaviour. Disposiional atribuions: cause due to character, traits, abiliies, feelings. Situaional atribuions: cause due to external constraints, situaional demands. Fundamental atribuion error: when searching for the cause of some negaive behaviour, there is a dual tendency for people to: overesimate disposiional factors, underesimate situaional factors.
