PSY 2401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Personality Psychology, Cognitive Revolution, Psych

• School: Temple University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2401
• Professor: Melinda Mattingly

Document Summary

Social psychology: scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in a social context. How one is affected by other individuals. 1880"s 1920"s: birth of social psychology. 1930"s 1970"s: surge in social psychological research. Interactionist perspective: you as a person interact with the environment: kurt lewis: a father of social psychology. Hitler and the holocaust: a reason for why social psychology even exists. Social cognition: that focuses on how people process, store, and apply information about other people and social situations.