PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Floyd Henry Allport, Henri Tajfel, Cognitive Revolution
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Social psychology: study of way people"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by other people and social situations, noticed that people cycled faster in the presence of others than when alone. Even if 1000+ friends: the need to feel good about ourselves: most people have a strong need to maintain reasonably high self-esteem, theory: an organized set of beliefs knowledge and assumptions that relate to understand a phenomenon. General claims about how stuff happens and you test them to gain higher or lower confidence: observational research, social desirability bias: people lie sometimes. There"s a social desirability bias to look good to the person asking the questions: memory failure, crowley: museum, boys and girls didn"t differ in how much time they spent at exhibits. Difference was how parents treated boys vs girls: dyadic observation: observing speech, nonverbal communication, behavior, observation gives great detail and you"re measuring very relevant variables.
