PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Gordon Allport, Applied Psychology, Individualism

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerald Goldberg, Miranda Di Lorenzo, Nikoo Norouzian, JongJin Kim, Eden Champagne

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. Was a german-american psychologist, known as one of the modern pioneers of social, organizational, and applied psychology in the u. s. Kurt lewi n change theory model is based around a 3-step process (unfreeze- change -freeze) providing a high-level approach to change. Cognitive schemas : can be defined as a set of linked mental representations of the world, which we use both to understand and to respond to situations. Social schemas : organized clusters of ideas about categories social events. Stereotypes : widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics and people because of their membership in a group. How we act towards others has an impact (ex. immediate vs. non-immediate style) s tereotype threat : a self-confirming apprehension that can undermine one"s confidence and performance (steele)