PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Evolutionary Psychology, Social Neuroscience, Collectivism
12 May 2013
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Social psychology: the scientific study of how people"s thoughts, attitudes, and behaviours are influenced by factors in the social world. Specifically how out views of ourselves change with the environment. Self-presentation: how people work to convey certain images of themselves to others. Many strategies to presenting ourselves to others, cars, clothes, etc. How we think, feel and act in the social world. Fundamental attribution error: the tendency to overestimate the role of personal causes, and underestimate the role of situational causes in predicting behaviour. Social cognition: how we think about the social world, and in particular how we select, interpret, and use information to make judgements about the world. Social influence: the impact of other people"s attitudes and behaviours on our own thoughts, feelings, attitudes and behaviour. How our attitudes and behaviours shape the social world. Self-fufilling prophecy: the process by which peoples expectation about a person lead them to elicit behaviour that confirms these expectations.
