PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Floyd Henry Allport, Muzafer Sherif, Kurt Lewin

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

Midterm: 80 questions, ve chapters: 1, 3, 4, 6, & 8, 8 questions per chapter; 40 questions from textbook, into, self, self & culture, attribution, attitudes, attribution/attitudes across cultures, conformity & obedience. What is social psychology: the scienti c study of the way in which a person"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are in uenced by the real or imaged presence of other people (allport, 1985) History of social psychology: the scienti c study of social psychology developed at the end of the 19th century. Norman triplett was one of the pioneers. Floyd allport wrote an important book on interaction of individuals in their social contexts. Some major contributions to social psychology: gorden allport - prejudice, establishment of spssi, muzafer sherif - experimental research on social in uence, kurt lewin - action research, ash - conformity. Chapter one: gestalt and positive psychology, behaviourist, socio-cultural, humanistic perspectives, social vs. self perception, self-ful lling prophecy, hindsight bias.