PSY 2110 Lecture 1: What is social psychology?

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2110
• Professor: M L Laliberte

Document Summary

Studying normal people and how they interact with the environment. How people"s thoughts, feelings and behaviours are in uenced by others: look at the abcs a ection, behaviour and cognition. How the social world in uences the individuals: thoughts about the world, others, oneself, beliefs, values and attitudes. How the social work in uences relationships: everyday interpersonal interactions, close relationships, helping others, prejudice, cultural in uence. Interested in 4 levels of understanding regarding individuals and the environment . } will bring it back to the individual. These interactions are with the social world. Usually based on common sense, but not always. True or false questions to determine how much we know about social psychology. De nition involves the use of scienti c methods to explore the ways in which a person"s thoughts, feelings and behaviours are in uenced by the presence of others: what study of abc of social psych.