PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Contact Hypothesis, Craigslist, Demand Characteristics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Peter Pada

Document Summary

Social psychology (defn- branch of psychology that studies the effect of social variables on individual behaviour, attitudes, perceptions and motives; also studies group and intergroup phenomena) Area of psychology that investigates the ways in which individuals create and interpret social situations. The study of ways in which thoughts, feelings, perceptions, motives, and behaviour are influenced by interactions and transactions between people. Major themes of social psychological research : social cognition, social relationships, and social influence. Social cognition- process in which people select, interpret and remember social information (how we think in a group relationship) Social perception process by which people come to understand & categorize the behaviours of others. Attribution theory- general approach to describing the ways the social perceiver uses information to generate causal explanations (detr the causes of event. You want to know the whys of life. ) Wanted to know whether if a behaviour is found in the person (internal.