PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Selective Perception, Semantic Network, Representativeness Heuristic
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Ahreby g: social psychology: overview, course logistics, history and methods of social psych, social cognition. First definition elaborated by gordon allport, a very social psychologist. Started off as a personality psychologist: uses scientific methods to understand and explain how the thought, feeling and behaviour of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Professor emphasized it had to be in the presences of others. We have a boarder view of social processes. (dogs understand what"s going on to a certain extent and they have reliable emotions. Social psychology as a whole will focus on thought, feeling and behaviour of individuals: affect, emotions, feelings, and mood, behaviour, verbal and nonverbal action, cognition, thought, sensation, perception, processing, and memory. With any social phenomenon we are interested in, we will focus on three aspects. We are interested how people think about others.
