PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Relativism, Vise, Truism
12 Sep 2016
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Social psychology= social influence: study of the effect of presence or perceived presence of other people on thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Trying to find information on all people to help everyone. Social psychology focuses on the influence elicited by a person"s beliefs about a social situation. That is if they know that one another is in the room. It does not assume it is right (what it knows can change) what it starts with is not the right answer. It does not tend to be internally inconsistent. It is based on empiricism (goes out to research) They give people the answer they want to here but in social psychology only one can be right. This is the folk wisdom that we talked about earlier birds together flock together . It is a good part of the world because it is easy it gives peoples answer to everything.
