PSY 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Emor, Social Cognition, Logica
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Social psychology, folk wisdom, and philosophy all have the same aspects when dealing with people"s feelings, practices, and how they are affected by what other people think. They vary in that folk wisdom concentrates for the most part on opinions and individual encounters that give us understanding or sound judgement. Philosophy is the comprehension of human instinct and thinking. Social psychology is a greater amount of the procedure of testing, theory, and thoughts in regards to the social conduct of people. Folk wisdom is also based primarily on beliefs or how someone thinks something occurred where as social psychology is based on scientific studies. Philosophy and social psychology are similar because they both involve studies of certain topics: define the fundamental attribution error, and provide an example of this phenomenon that might occur in daily life! The fundamental attribution error is an intellectual liking in which a characteristic is designated to a specific behavior.