PS270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Influence, Fallacy, Social Representation
Document Summary
Social psychology scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. The scientific study of: social thinking. Prejudice: scientific process - systematic approach to studying human social behaviour, social behaviour and thought - the power of the situation, the quest for answers - seeking of explanation. Identifying the cause of social behaviours and thoughts: social cognition - cognitive processes. How the individual and their individual and their social environment interact. Social neuroscience integration of biological and social perspectives that explores the neural and psychological bases of social and emotional behaviours. Culture the enduring behaviours, ideas, attitudes, traditions, products, and institutions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. Social representations socially shared beliefs; widely held ideas and values, including our assumptions and culture ideologies. Our social representations help us make sense of our world.
