PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: In Essence, Dependent And Independent Variables, Fritz Heider

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Goldberg

Document Summary

An attempt to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings and behaviour of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Birth of democracy give rise to social psychology in ancient greek. It didn"t have a specific founder but pushed into being by events of ww1. How to figure out how these people are careful to make these bombs. Rise of hitler and atrocities really shocked people, psychologist look into answers to ww2 atrocities. (ie. prison experiment) How do you get people to adopt lifestyle, not do drugs, get lifestyle changes etc . Early social psychology ancient greek and democracy. You need a state because human need each other and not self sufficient. ) Plato argues that things should be run by people who are educated should run the country and wisest of them all should be in charge. When you"re older you can understand what is going on a lot better.