Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Freudian Slip, Neurology, Psychopathology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Situational approach to behavior: we are placed in new situations every day. Social psychology a branch of psychology that analyzes the situational approach to behavior and emphasizes influence of social phenomena and people interactions with each other on influence. People behave differently depending on their situation external instead of internal: as human we judge person on just one instance of behavior (internal). Hard to predict behavior based off 1 situation. Distinctiveness (does person behave differently in different situations), and. If person behaves different in different situations (distinctive) and others behave similarly in the same situation (consensus) then we know the behavior is due to the situation (external). Situation is effecting behavior: if person is consistent in all situations, then maybe not external/environment, and more internal. Your friend beaves differently to snakes at a zoo (where snakes are caged) than to a snake in her living room (where snake might be a danger).