PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stroop Effect, Dependent And Independent Variables, Random Assignment
30 Mar 2016
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Social psychology: scientific study of behaviour and the mind. Gordon allport"s definition of social psychology: the scientific study of the way in which people"s (individual) thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people . Social psych is not sociology, social psych is about the individual psychological processes. Social psych is different from clinical psych in the sense that social psych is about normal populations. Social psych is different from personality psych in the sense that social psych is about people in general, not specifically (it"s about psychological processes that people have in common with one another) Theory: an integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events. Creating hypotheses based on a theory: testable predictions about the relationship between two or more variables. Theory: people have a common source of controlled resources/willpower from which they draw. Each time we try to control our will, we reduce this pool or resources.
