Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kurt Lewin, Folk Psychology, Social Cognition

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Erin Heerey

Document Summary

Anthropology, sociology) are also interested in how people are influenced but heir social environments: social psychology differs because it is concerned more with how people are influenced by their construal (interpretation) of their social environment. Construal: the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world, construals are subjective interpretation of social phenomena. Construal in action: different people interpret the same evidence differently, naive realism, people believe they perceive things as they are, those who believe as we do are reasonable and others are biased. Social psychology is: empirically (experimentally based, ideas and assumptions tested using the scientific method, goes above and beyond speculation or simple common-sense answers that may be incorrect. Philosophy: social psychology, theorizing and subsequent controlled experimentation, philosophy, observation and subsequent theorizing. Social psychology vs sociology: shared interest in societal influences on behaviour, differ in level of analysis, social psychology studies individuals, sociology examines broad societal factors.