PSYCH 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Influence, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Construals
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People construct their own reality - recognize that people have their own subjective interpretations of reality (i. e. to me it"s just a microphone, but to professor it"s a source of anxiety) Construals are first step - cant really understand or predict social behavior if we don"t first have a sense of how people are making sense of situations. Social situations and people are often especially complex and ambiguous stimuli. Social influence is pervasive (and often invisible) - having an impact on you much more often than you give credit for it, and you"re not sitting there having conscious awareness of it. Social norms of how close you stand next to elevator, or that you don"t sit next to someone on the bart if there are plenty of empty seats. Motivational principles - we are motivated and it turns out that there are a limited set of motives that drive different kinds of behaviors.
