PSYCH 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Peripheral Nervous System, Automaticity, Fundamental Attribution Error
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The scientific study of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations. Important themes: social psych is a science. We use the scientific method to test our hypotheses: social psych integrates the person and the situation to explain behavior. We use lewin"s equation: b=f(p,e) to understand why we do the things we do: social psych considers the role of subjective experience. We think that how a person construes an object will influence how they interact with it: social psych is useful to daily life we apple social psychological research to many real world phenomena, social psych asks big questions. We are interested in the classic debates about human behavior. 3 key features: science is logical systematic observation, science is repeatable public verification, science is vulnerable to disconfirmation solvable problems. Theory: an integrated set of statements that describes, predicts, or explains behavior.
