PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gordon Allport, Ego Depletion, Clinical Psychology

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2120
• Professor: Kerry Kawakami

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Chapter 1: the revealing science of social psychology, pp. Check out the course and textbook website: https://moodle. yorku. ca/moodle/course/view. php?id=89373. Chapters 1 and 2 http://www. macmillanhighered. com/launchpad/greenberg1e/4952173: what is social psychology, what is a good theory, what methods do we use to test theories, the replication crisis. Psychology: scientific study of behavior and the mind. Social psychology is (cid:498)the scientific study of the way in which people"s (individual"s) thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people. (cid:499) The scientific study of how and why we think, feel , and act toward others and ourselves. The importance of the abcs to social psychology. Cognitive psychology: clinical psychology because it is about the different clinical groups rather than the general population. It"s about psychological processes that people have in common with one another: personality psychology- not clinical groups. A lot of different areas are studying social psychological processes how we interpret our world and its contents.