Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Order Of The Solar Temple, Social Influence, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

Document Summary

The scientific study of the behavior and the mind. The scientific study of the way in which people"s thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influences by the real or imagined presence of other people. Vaccination real world impact on whether to vaccinate children or not. Social psychology- it also includes, the scientific study of how individuals: People are cool, desire to understand the self and others. Some of the most important problems are social problems , and we can help solve them. Researchers design studies to systematically test interesting questions. Social psychologists believe it is most important to understand individuals construal of the social environment. We are less concerned with understand the objective properties of the social environment itself. It doesn"t matter whether the cat is going up or down the stairs. L put book on stairs s thought that it was rude and she paid a lot of money for that book but l was simply just cleaning up.