PSY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Implicit Stereotype, Belief Perseverance, Implicit-Association Test
28 Apr 2016
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Social psychology: the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. Focuses on how individuals in general view and affect one another. Social thinking: how we perceive ourselves and others, what we believe, judgments we make, our attitudes. Social influence: cultures, pressure to conform, persuasion, groups of people. Social relations: prejudice, aggression, attraction and intimacy, helping. We all think differently, there is an objective reality. Our answers influence our emotions and actions, how we construe the world and ourselves, matters. When someone"s behavior is consistent and distinctive, we attribute that behavior to his or her personality. Our intuitions and unconscious information processing are routinely powerful and sometimes perilous. Matthias mehl and james pennebaker- 30% of the students time was spent in conservation, relationships are a big part of being human. We adapt to our social context, our attitudes and behavior are shaped by external social forces.
