BIOC17H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Milgram Experiment, Daniel Batson, Kurt Lewin
17 Mar 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Social psychology - the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviours of individuals in social situations. Personality psychology - emphasizes individual differences in behaviour rather than the social situation. Cognitive psychology - the study of how people perceive, think about, and remember aspects of the world; more likely to study categorization processes of memory for words or objects. Sociology - study of behaviour of people in the aggregate. Kurt lewin - the founder of modern social psychology; jewish berliner; believed that the behaviour of objects, is always a function of the field of forces in which they find themselves. A study on learning and memory at yale university in exchange for a modest amount of money. A study about the effects of punishment on learning. The participant/teacher was to administer shocks (15 to 450 volts) to the fake learner each time he made an error fully. 62. 5 % of the participants went all the way to the 450-volt level.
